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BUSINESS ON CREATE: ADJUST INVESTMENTS LEVEL FOR FIRB OKAY

By Elijah Felice E. Rosales

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NDUSTRY groups are demanding that policy-makers raise the threshold for investments required to get the Finance chief’s approval, as they warned that adding another level of bureaucracy aggravates red tape in the government.

Private sector leaders told the BusinessMirror they will push for the adjustment of the threshold for investments that need to go through the Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB).

Last week, senators voted 20-1 to approve the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Act (CREATE) bill on third and final reading.

The measure created the FIRB, tasked to review and approve fiscal incentives

for projects worth P1 billion and above; chaired by the secretary of finance and cochaired by the secretary of trade and industry. Because of the low threshold of P1 billion, bulk of investments will go through a longer process with the FIRB, and this is why business groups want investment promotion agencies (IPAs) to be allowed to continue approving majority of new businesses, which can only happen if a higher cap— or beyond P1 billion—for investments that must go through FIRB is set.

The lone dissenting vote in the Senate was cast by Sen. Richard J. Gordon, who had opposed creation of the FIRB, which he deemed a needless layer of bureaucracy that contradicts the call for cutting red tape and right-sizing the government.

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By Bernadette D. Nicolas

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HE Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has thumbed down a proposal to endorse to President Duterte the issuance of a directive for the immediate return of P33.3 billion “parked” in the Philippine International Trading Corp.

(PITC) so these can be realigned for urgent needs like the Covid-19 response.

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Drilon presses for abolition of PITC, invokes GCG Act

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ENATE Minor it y Leader Franklin Drilon over the weekend sought the abolition of the state-run Philippine International Trading Corp. (PITC), saying existing government agencies already have their own procurement offices.

This, even as he pressed for the return of P33.4 billion of the agency’s “parked funds” to the Treasury, pointing out it is “immoral” to let this anomalous setup remain while the government scrounges for funds for its Covid-19 response and to stimulate a recession-hit economy.

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BSP rallies support for bills for post-pandemic recovery

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FTER bouts of aggressive monetary policy measures to lift the economy from the sinking effects of the pandemic, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is now rallying to support the passage of laws that will help in the “whole of government” approach to post-pandemic recovery.

Speaking at the recent Pilipinas Conference Virtual Forum organized by Stratbase Albert del Rosario Institute, BSP Governor Benjamin Diokno expressed strong support for pending legislation that will help keep the economic grow th momentum after the disruption caused by Covid-19.

Diokno particularly cited four pending measures.

“First, the Bayanihan law which features the expansion of credit and rediscounting facilities to affected MSMEs in the agriculture, infrastructure and manufacturing sectors of the economy by two government financial institutions, for which equity support and guarantee facilities will be provided,” Diokno said.

Just last week, economic managers announced that they are still assessing the Bayanihan 3’s impact on the country’s fiscal health.

“Second, the ‘Financial Institutions Strategic Transfer’ [FIST] bill, which seeks to help financial institutions offload their pandemic-induced nonperforming assets through special purpose vehicles.

This would enable banks to continue serving the financial needs of borrowers,” Diokno said.

“Third, the ‘Government Financial Institutions Unified Initiatives to Distressed Enterprises for Economic Recovery’’ Act or the GUIDE bill, which enables the creation of a special investment vehicle that would infuse capital into key enterprises with provision for employment preservation,” he added.

As of this writing, the FIST bill has been put on the House of Representatives’ list of economic bills under priority agenda while the GUIDE bill is still under plenary deliberation.

“Lastly, the proposed Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises [CREATE] Act, which proposes an immediate across-the-board cut in corporate income tax [CIT] rate for all firms from 30percent to 25 percent followed by a 1-percentage point annual cut from 2023-2027 to bring down CIT to 20 percent by 2027,” Diokno said.

On Thursday (November 26), the Senate passed the CREATE bill on third and final reading.

Diokno also reiterated that despite their aggressive moves to keep the country’s monetary policy accommodative during the pandemic, they are still prepared to implement measures if needed.

“The BSP has far from exhausted the instruments in its policy toolkit, and it stands ready to recalibrate or deploy additional measures, in line with its mandate to maintain price and financial stability,” Diokno said.

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Despite Covid, Pag-IBIG projects highest take from savings scheme

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By Bernadette D. Nicolas

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HE Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund) expects to set the highest ever collections from its members from the Modified Pag-Ibig 2 (MP2) Savings Program this year despite the economic fallout from the pandemic.

Pag-IBIG Fund Chief Executive Officer Acmad Rizaldy P. Moti said their January to September collection from the MP2 Savings Program remains robust and is still above the amount they collected in the same period last year.

As of end-2019, he said they were able to collect P12 billion.

“We are happy to share with everyone that for the first nine months of the year, [our collec-

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Drilon said he will follow up “next week” with Finance Secretary Carlos

tions from] the voluntary savings programs is still above the level [during] the same period of 2019, so we are looking at P12 billion or even higher; it looks like we are going to set the highest ever MP2 collections from our members,” Moti said in a briefing on Friday.

“And that is one of the proofs that our members, the Filipino workers, truly trust the Pag-Ibig Fund, that they have moved their Dominguez III on the latter’s initiative to write Budget Secretary Wendel Avisado to have an executive order drafted so the President can direct the return by yearend to the national government of long-idled funds at PITC. Late on Sunday, however, Avisado told the BusinessMirror he has advised Dominguez that crafting an EO to compel the return of the monies will not pass legal muster, and the issue of billions in parked funds from various agencies should be treated as an “implementation” problem. See banner story, “DBM nixes EO to return funds parked with PITC.” Drilon said the DOF was looking for available funds to bankroll the government’s P70-billion mass immunization program targetting 60 million Filipinos once a Covid-19 vaccine becomes available.

“They’re looking for over P70 billion.

Here we’ve seen government agencies giving their funds to PITC to buy their various needs,” even while allowing the latter to keep billions in idle funds for procurements that have not been consummated, or which must be returned because certain purchases did not proceed as scheduled.

Drilon cited as example the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ supply acquisition process, where it turned over the payment through the PITC, to buy combat boots. Under the budget process, funds not used within a year are returned to the national

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Under the bill, IPAs, such as the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (Peza), are left to assess investments of less than P1 billion.

Industry leaders said they favor the setup wherein regulators like Peza approve their applications.

Threshold too low

Danilo C. Lachica, president of the Semiconductor and Electronics Industries in the Philippines Foundation Inc., argued the P1-billion threshold could work against the economy, as the added bureaucracy may turn off especially foreign investors.

“The FIRB limit of P1 billion delegated to Peza and IPAs may be too small,” Lachica said.

“There is a concern that approval lead time may discourage investors.”

John D. Forbes, senior advisor at the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, said foreign investors had recommended setting the threshold at $500,000, or close to P25 billion.

With the proposal ignored, they expect the FIRB to comply with its mandate to review projects within 20 days. Likewise, Forbes said foreign investors hope the soon-to-function committee will adjust the threshold on its own.

“Foreign investors usually invest much more than P1 billion per project, and will have concerns that the FIRB review adds more

hard-earned savings to Pag-Ibig Fund so it is a testament to how Pag-Ibig Fund has performed over the years,” he added.

MP2 Savings Program is a voluntary savings platform for Pag-IBIG Fund members who wish to save more and earn high dividends, in addition to their Pag-IBIG Fund Regular Savings.

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In the same event, Moti also reported that they have so far released P44.16 billion in home loans as of end-October this year as they have started seeing a rise in the availment since quarantine restrictions were eased.

Last year, housing loan releases

by Pag-IBIG Fund reached a record P86.7 billion, a 15-percent surge from P75.3 billion in 2018. Moti also disclosed during the event that there was a decline in the number of their actively paying members.

“Last December, the number of active members was 14.69 million but unfortunately as of September, it went down 12.69 million so a treasury. And yet, Drilon added, in an apparent move to avoid returning the funds, the agency in question asks PITC to keep it.

Drilon, however, noted in a radio interview that a problem arises when the unspent fund“balloons and is forgotten.”

As happened here, he said, the total parked funds hit “P33.4 billion in 2019.”

The senator clarified this information did not come from him or from Dominguez, but“from the Commission of Audit [COA] itself.”

The COA, he added, “discovered that the funds have long lain idle and sleeping in bank accounts.”

Drilon said Dominguez agreed with his view and talked to DBM chief Avisado to work on having the funds returned to the Treasury, “as its spending authority has expired, so it could be realigned.”

GCG law allows dismantling Meanwhile, Drilon said the law they passed a few years ago reforming the government-owned and -controlled corporations sector by creating a Governing Council on GOCCs (GCG) allows the dismantling of PITC. The latter, set up in the seventies, has outlived its usefulness and is now being used to thwart proper fiscal processes bordering on graft, he added.

Asked whether forcing the return of the P33-plus-billion won’t bankrupt the PITC, Drilon replied in Filipino, “they are not needed anyway. The DBM has a

bureaucracy and uncertainty in a country in which bureaucracy and corruption are rated the top concerns of business,” Forbes explained.

Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III, however, sought to ease these concerns, saying in a statement at the weekend that placing the governance of tax incentives under the FIRB mirrors international best practice and is a major win for the Filipino people. It ensures accountability and transparency in the grant of tax incentives, he added. Story on page A8, “DOF chief hopes CREATE reaches Duterte in Dec” It has yet to be made clear if the House will challenge the Senate version of the CREATE bill.

If it does, Forbes vowed industry groups will ask lawmakers to raise the threshold to $500,000 as petitioned by foreign investors.

Albay Rep. Joey S. Salceda last week announced the House will adopt the Senate measure to skip convening the bicameral conference committee, wherein lobbyists from both the public and private sectors can make their final insertions to the bill.

However, other information indicated that House Speaker Lord Allan Q. Velasco still wants a bicameral conference committee to make a final review of the bill, a crucial part of the overall tax reform program.

Peza Director General Charito B. Plaza, for her part, declined to comment on how the passage of the CREATE bill will affect investment inflows to economic zones next year. Belying Salceda, she said the measure will undergo bicameral deliberations as instructed by

drop of 2 million in the list of active members—these are the actively paying Pag-IBIG fund members,” he said.

As of end-September, Moti also said their net income is at P21.65 billion, gross income is at P32.56 billion, and their short-term loan releases have reached P26.02 billion benefitting 1.27 million borrowers.

In 2019, Pag-Ibig Fund achieved its highest-ever net income of P34.37 billion, up by 3.6 percent from P33.17 billion in 2018. The agency also booked a higher gross income last year at P51.67 billion, a 6.76-percent increase from P48.4 billion in 2018.

Of the P10-billion House Construction Fund, Moti said they have also so far approved 20 House Construction Financing Line projects amounting to P1.228 billion.

The agency earlier said this fund was meant to ensure the continuous production of more socialized and low-cost homes to address the housing needs of its members but also to serve as a stimulus to the housing industry.

procurement service that does the same thing.”

Under the GCG Act, the Council has the power to “determine whether a GOCC’s task is duplication, or is something the private sector can very well do. They [GCG] can recommend to the President to dismantle and stop the operations of PITC.” He stressed that the government— or taxpayer—are losing out from the PITC practice of hoarding and then effectively “hiding” funds. “I repeat, the PITC is just a duplication because there is a DBM-PS and agencies have their own bids and awards committees.”

Drilon said one unconscionable consequence of PITC’s usual practice of charging commissions from agencies that ask it to do the procuring for them is that, should it be tasked to procure vaccines for the Philippine government, it might seek the usual commission of from 1 percent to 4 percent. In the case of badly needed Covid-19 vaccines, the 1 percent of P20 billion is a whopping P200 million, the senator said.

“That’s why that agency must be dismantled. What they’re doing is not only illegal, it’s immoral,” he added.

Set up in the 1970s, PITC was tasked to buy generic medicines from India. “In their charter, they’re supposed to help small businesses acquire the capacity to import internationally,” said Drilon. But they strayed into procurement fulltime, he added.

Speaker Velasco.

Can PHL stay competitive?

Francisco S. Zaldarriaga, president of the Philippine Ecozones Association, said industries can only hope the country keeps up with its regional competitors in terms of ease of doing business with the inclusion of the FIRB in the review process.

In the World Bank’s Doing Business Report 2020, the Philippines improved its score to 62.8 out of 100 to land in the 95th spot of the survey. In the 2019 edition, the country obtained 57.68 that sank it to 124th, from 113th the prior cycle.

In spite of the jump in 2020, the Philippines stayed behind its Southeast Asian rivals Singapore, second; Malaysia, 12th; Thailand, 21st; Brunei Darussalam, 66th; Vietnam, 70th; and Indonesia, 73rd.

The Philippines received its poorest ranking of 171st in starting a business. For this very reason, industry groups had asked legislators to allow Peza and similar agencies to retain their one-stop shop services, including the authority to approve new projects.

The CREATE bill, on one hand, slashes corporate income tax to 25 percent, from 30 percent—the highest rate among Southeast Asian nations.

On the other, the measure lifts the incentives, including the 5-percent tax on gross income paid in lieu of all local and national taxes, being enjoyed by investors. Firms are provided with up to 10 years to surrender their tax perks, by then the new set of incentives takes effect.

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Rizal governor stops small-scale mining, quarrying, land projects

By Jonathan L. Mayuga @jonlmayuga

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ORE than two weeks after the massive flood in Metro Manila and other parts of Luzon, Rizal Governor Rebecca Ynares has issued an order stopping mining and quarrying operations and urged the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to do the same for large-scale operations in the province.

While the move was welcomed by anti-mining and environmental groups who blame the “Great Luzon Flood ” during the onslaught of Typhoon Ulysses early this month to the massive degradation of critical watersheds, the DENR is deferring action on the quarry operations in Rizal pending investigation by the DENR. R iza l Prov incia l Gover nor Ynares, in Memorandum Order No. 2020-01 cited the attribution to mining and quarrying operations and related activities in Rizal the loss of lives and the millions in damage to property as a result of flooding caused by heavy rain induced by typhoons such as Ulysses.

The order covers only smallscale mining or quarrying permits issued by the Provincial Government of Rizal under the Small-Scale Mining Act. “In the interest of public safety and welfare and ensure environmental protection and sustainability and to address, as well the complaints and concerns on threats and impacts thereof, more so, during typhoons, and similar natural disturbances, all quarry operations and related activities permitted and actively operating in the Province of Rizal over a total land area of 38.24 hectares, more or less, are hereby ordered stopped and shall remain to be such unless and until authorized to resume operations for just cause or reason,” Ynares said.

Ynares also urged the DENR to cause the immediate stoppage of all operations of mining, quarrying, and related activities that it granted under the Philippine Mining Act of 1995, which the official stated covers a total of 4,964.32 hectares, including crushing plants.

“Likewise, all local government units in this Province are strongly advised to cause the immediate stoppage of all land development activities, including subdivision development, permitted under RA 7160, unless assessed and found to be compliant with the pertinent laws, rules, and regulations,” the order stated.

Ynares directed the Provincial Director of the Philippine National Police to strictly implement the order and apprehend any violator.

DENR’s reaction

SOUGHT for reaction, DENR Undersecretary Jonas R. Leones said the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) and Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) have ongoing assessment of quarry operations in the Province.

Leones, the DENR’s Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and International Affairs, said the even before the Provincial Government of Rizal issued the order, the DENR had already directed the DENR MGB and EMB to assess quarry operations.

The investigation was ordered a week

after Typhoon Ondoy.

He said the DENR is not keen on hastily issuing suspension orders for quarry operations with Mineral Production Sharing Agreement (MPSA) in Rizal Province saying flooding in Marikina and other low-lying areas in Rizal and Metro Manila cannot be attributed to quarrying.

Compared to quarrying in Albay, where there are over 100 quarry permits all around Mayon Volcano, quarrying in the Marikina watershed is minimal.

“Out of the 53,000 hectares in Marikina Watershed, only around 200 hectares are the open quarry operations or disturbed areas,” says Leones.

Most quarry operations, he said, are in the lower Marikina Watershed or lower stream of the Marikina River.

He added that excessive rainfall induced by typhoons in the last two months before Typhoon Ondoy have already caused the Marikina River to reach is saturation point.

Worst, he said that the Marikina River is already heavily-silted, which explains why the DENR is eyeing engineering intervention like widening the river to boost its carrying capacity and help prevent flooding.

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Govt to give economic relief to maritime industry players

By Lorenz S. Marasigan @lorenzmarasigan

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HE government will provide economic relief to ship owners and offer returning seafarers with free Covid-19 testing as part of its initiatives to help the economy recover and mitigate the spread of the dreaded disease.

Transportation Secretary Arthur P. Tugade said the government, through the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act 2, will be waiving the collection of a number of port fees for shipping companies

and owners as a form of economic support to the “critically-impacted maritime sector.”

Roughly P250 million will be used to subsidize the fees that will be waived, specifically the dockage and lay-up fees for domestic ships.

Returning seafarers, meanwhile, will receive free swab testing for Covid-19. A total of P270 million has been earmarked for the Covid-19 tests of returning Filipino seafarers. Only inbound or returning Filipino seafarers who have disembarked through Philippine ports and airports are entitled to

avail of the free Covid-19 testing.

“These initiatives will be a great help for shipping companies and operators and seafarers, especially since we have yet to see the end of this pandemic,” Tugade said.

For shipping companies/operators to avail of the financial assistance, they must be a holder of a valid Certificate of Public Convenience (CPC), Provisional Authority (PA), or Special Permit (SP) issued by the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina).

They must be a holder of a valid accreditation certificate issued by

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A welcome move

ANTI-MINING group A lyansa Tigil Mina and Kalikasan-People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan-PNE) welcomed Ynares’s order.

“We welcome this order of the Rizal provincial government to stop all quarrying operations.

We hope that the local government will commit time, personnel finances to monitor and close all these quarrying operations,” ATM National Coordinator Jesus Vicente C. Garganera said.

Garganera added that the move by the Office of the Governor was somehow surprising because it didn’t activate the Provincial Mining Regulatory Board (PMRB) to communicate and implement this order.

Meanwhile, he called on the DENR and the MGB to heed the call of the Rizal provincial government that all mining tenements in Rizal be immediately suspended.

Garganera said ATM looks forward to a Congressional inquiry on the flooding caused by Ondoy, specifically in Marikina City and other areas in Metro Manila and nearby Rizal towns.

Leon Dulce, national coordinator of Kalikasan-PNE said it is high time that the Duterte administration start closing down destructive quarrying and mining projects situated in critical watersheds.

“It has been a cat and mouse game since Typhoon Ondoy first exposed the disastrous consequences of the Marikina watershed’s degradation in 2009.

A national audit of watersheds should be conducted specifically investigating extractives, land conversion, and infrastructure encroaching on forests and waterways,” Dulce said.

According to Dulce, the recent issuance of a climate emergency declaration in the House of Representatives should translate into more concrete, binding actions such as this stoppage of quarrying in Rizal.

the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA).

Shipping companies/operators who have pending applications for accreditation are also eligible.

The financial assistance shall also be on a “first come, first served” and per vessel, per transaction bases.

“Ever since the Covid-19 broke out, our maritime workers have been vital to keep the economy thriving. They are also considered as frontline workers during these challenging times and so we will implement this as soon as possible,” PPA General Manager Jay Daniel R. Santiago said.

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Ortigas & Co. President and CEO Jaime E. Ysmael (left), San Juan City Mayor Francis Javier M. Zamora and his wife Keri Zamora led the launching of a “Tree of Hope” at a shopping mall. The executive said the tree aims to send out a message that “Christmas is a celebration of love, hope and joy.” This is a Christmas to be celebrated during a pandemic. NONOY LACZA

Ang asks to extend cashless transactions’ Dec. 1 deadline G IVEN the continued high volume of applications for RFID electronic toll collection stickers, San Miguel Corp. (SMC) President Ramon S. Ang is appealing to the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to consider a further extension for motorists of its order to implement 100-percent cashless transactions at all expressways.

Ang assured the government that all lanes at toll plazas of its expressways—Southern Tagalog Arterial Road (STAR), South Luzon Expressway (Slex), the Skyway System, NAIA Expressway, and the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEx)— are ready and fully equipped for the shift to 100 percent electronic toll collection by December 1.

However, it’s the huge number of motorists that have still not secured their RFID stickers, that should be given due consideration, Ang said.

“I have been monitoring the situation. We only have a few days to go, and yet our sticker installation sites are still packing long lines, especially this last weekend before implementation on December 1. Given the surge in last-minute applications we’re seeing, we don’t think we will be able

to serve everyone. A large number of motorists will not make it to the December 1 deadline,” Ang said.

Ang said that despite the company’s efforts to roll out additional measures to fast-track the “stickering,” or installation of stickers—including opening 100 additional sticker installation sites and implementing 24 hours installation at major locations—the volume is just too much.

“My honest opinion is we will really need at least until February. And that is what we are asking government. To allow us to retain even just a few cash lanes until February,” Ang said.

“Majority of lanes at toll plazas can be ETC, because anyway, the tollway operators have complied and equipped all lanes for cashless transactions. We can then assign some lanes for continued “stickering,” and at least one lane for cash payments. This is in case traffic builds up due to long lines at “stickering” lanes. Some motorists can still opt to pay in cash, and just have their sticker installed on their next trip,” Ang added.

Ang said that government’s decision to extend the deadline—originally set for November 2, to December 1—and its subsequent decision to not

fully enforce penalties until after January 11, was “the right call.”

He however said that the increase in applications from non-regular users of expressways trying to beat the December deadline, is one of the main reasons lines remain long at sticker installation sites along with strict distancing protocols.

“As the DOTr itself said, there really is no need to panic if you are a non-regular user of expressways. Even with the scheduled implementation on December 1, motorists with no stickers will not be apprehended. Also, “stickering” will continue at the toll plazas and installation sites. In fact, these will continue even after January,” Ang emphasized.

“But given that many motorists still want to get their stickers as soon as possible, I think we can still accommodate them. Because anyway, those who have secured their stickers earlier will already realize the benefits of government’s mandate, and that is convenience and added safety. For those that have not been able to get theirs, I think we won’t lose anything by providing them some consideration. We hope government will study this option carefully. At the end of the day, we will abide by what they say,” Ang said.

USTICE Secretary Menardo I. Guevarra has directed the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to join in the intensified search for missing University of the Philippines (UP) Law Professor Ryan P. Oliva whose belongings were recently found along the shoreline of Barangay Balikyas, Looc, Occidental Mindoro.

Oliva, who also works in the Department of Tourism’s Legislative Liaison Unit has been reported missing since November 21.

Guevarra said the NBI will coordinate with the local officials in Mindoro Occidental and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) in the search for the missing lawyer.

“The NBI Mimaropa field office is already involved in the search for Oliva. I have directed the OIC Chief [NBI officer-incharge Eric B. Distor] to intensify the NBI’s coordination with the local police of Looc, Mindoro Occidental and the Philippine Coast Guard in the joint search,” the justice secretary said.

Mimaropa is an administrative region covering the provinces of Marinduque, Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Palawan and Romblon.

Based on the initial investigation by the NBI, Oliva was last seen at a resort in Batangas province.

He reportedly contracted a cab driver to bring him to any resort in Nasugbu, Batangas.

The driver told investigators that they stopped at a resort in Barangay Wawa in Nasugbu and Oliva told him to wait for him as he needed to check the resort first.

After several hours, a tricycle driver approached him and told him that Oliva wanted him to go back to Manila already.

Investigators are still gathering more information that may lead to Oliva’s whereabouts.

Labor department gives cash aid to 339,000 OFWs affected by Covid-19

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LMOST 339,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFW), who were affected by the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19), were given cash aid by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

In a statement, Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III said they already released P3.45 billion for the said beneficiaries of the initial tranche of their Abot Kamay ang Pagtulong (Akap) program.

The Akap is a one-time P10,000 or $200-cash aid given by the DOLE to Covid-affected OFWs. With the said development, the DOLE has now nearly exhausted the initial P3.5-billion budget allocation for Akap.

In a SMS, International Labor Affairs Bureau (Ilab) Director Alice Q. Visperas told the BusinessMirror they will soon be tapping the additional P2 billion Akap funding

under the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Bayanihan 2), which was finally released by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).

The amount was downloaded last week to DOLE’s regional offices and Philippine Overseas Labor Offices (Polo), which will facilitate its distribution to qualified Akap beneficiaries.

The DOLE expects a faster distribution of cash aid under the sec-

ond round of Akap once they roll out their new online registration system on Monday.

Instead of registering at dole-akap. owwa.gov.ph., Akap beneficiaries must now submit their applications at the oasis.owwa.gov.ph.

“This will allow the offices of the [Overseas Workers Welfare Administration] to process and evaluate the applications in advance,” Bello said.

Bello, however, noted that stranded Balik-Manggagawa and seafarers whose deployment were suspended due to Covid-19 as well as those who have been and will be repatriated before November 30, 2020, will still have to submit their applications at dole-akap.owwa.gov.ph.

As for displaced OFWs, who will remain onsite, they must file their application through the Polo covering their workplace.

Visperas said the new system is expected to shorten the processing for Akap applications from at least five days to only three to five days, instead.

The labor department has received 683,369 applications for Akap since it was launched last April.

Of these applications, 389.996 was approved by government agency.

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Meat imports seen surpassing 2019 record

By Jasper Emmanuel Y. Arcalas @jearcalas

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HE country’s meat imports this year may exceed the 2019 volume based on the January to October shipments, which expanded by 8.5 percent to 760,000 metric tons (MT), as traders and processors bought more imported chicken meat and beef products.

Data from the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) showed that meat imports in the 10-month period were 60,073.049 MT higher than last year’s 698,574.243 MT. Last year’s total meat imports reached a record high at 844,971.338 MT, based on BAI data.

BAI data also indicated that chicken meat and beef imports remained as the drivers for the overall increase in meat imports as growth in these two products was able to offset the 28-percent decline in pork purchased from abroad.

“We could see relatively larger

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import this calendar year but weak imports in the first half next year,” Meat Importers and Traders Association President Jesus C. Cham told the BusinessMirror.

Cham said the increase in chicken imports could be attributed to stronger consumer appetite for processed meat coupled by lower prices for chicken cuts and leg quarters.

He added that meat processors could also be importing more mechanically deboned meat (MDM) of chicken as they are hedging against the possibility that tariff on these

Gain report: GE corn areas in PHL continue to expand

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HE country’s total area planted with genetically engineered (GE) corn this year expanded by 26 percent to 834,617 hectares indicating “increased acceptance and understanding of the benefits of biotechnology,” according to a Global Agricultural Information Network (Gain) report.

The Gain report, prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service in Manila (USDA-FAS Manila), noted that the total area planted with GE corn has steadily expanded in the past two decades since the crop’s introduction in 2003.

Citing data from the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI), GE corn planted area grew by 7,650 percent to over 830,000 hectares in the 2019-2020 period (February-March) from 10,769 hectares in 2003.

“The growth in area over the past two decades likely indicates increased farmer acceptance and awareness of the safety and benefits of using GE corn,” the report, which was published recently, read.

The Gain report noted that total GE corn area “would be higher if the use of counterfeit GE seeds were included.”

“Sold as conventional seeds, counterfeit GE seeds are produced with Bt and Roundup Ready (RR) traits.

Although cheaper, they are inferior in quality and sold without proper

stewardship measures,” it said.

“The same source estimates counterfeit GE seeds at around 10 percent of overall Bt corn seeds.”

In 2018, the BusinessMirror broke the story on the proliferation of counterfeit GE seeds which was considered by industry experts as a threat to the overall growth of the corn and seed industries. (See “Flaw in law threatens to slow seeds sector’s success,” BusinessMirror, June 6, 2018).

Based on BPI data GE corn area during the 2019-2020 period was 26.7 percent higher than the 658,267 hectares recorded in the 2018-2019 period, according to the Gain report.

Citing BPI data, the Gain report said GE corn planted in Luzon for the current production period reached 593,117 hectares while areas in Visayas and Mindanao reached 47,519 hectares and 196,981 hectares, respectively.

“BPI’s most recent data show that over 70 percent of GE corn in the Philippines is grown on Luzon island, with 24 percent in Mindanao, and 6 percent in the Visayas. This contrasts with Mindanao island representing about half of total—GE and conventional—corn production, per the Philippine Statistics Authority,” the report read.

“Mindanao produces about 70 percent of Philippine white corn,

which is primarily used for feed, whereas the area only represents 40 percent of yellow corn production, which goes to animal feed.”

Biotech law

TO streamline the regulatory process and fast-track the approval of biotechnology products, a lawmaker is pushing for the passage of House Bill 3372 or the Modern Biotechnology Act. AAMBIS-OWA Party-list Representative Sharon Garin renewed her call for the passage of the bill she authored in light of the damage caused by the series of the typhoon on the agriculture sector.

Garin pointed out that there is a “need to foster science-based methods for risk-mitigation” that includes the utilization of biotechnology products.

“It is time that the safe and responsible use of biotechnology is included in the Philippine toolkit to meet national development goals,” she said in a recent statement.

The bill would establish the Biotechnology Authority of the Philippines (BioAP), a policy-making body attached to the Department of Science and Technology, that would be responsible for reviewing, improving, and implementing biosafety regulations for products of modern biotechnology. The BioAP would also ensure that biosafety

regulations are “science-based and simplified with a product-based and not a process-based approach,” according to Garin.

“A key feature of the bill is the proposed exemption for donor’s tax for any donation, contribution, bequest subsidy, or financial aid to BioAP or any Department, state universities and colleges (SUCs), or research center in support of biotechnology,” she said.

The bill also outlines penalties for unauthorized destruction of biotech crops, sale or distribution of fake Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) seeds. A fine of P500,000 and/ or imprisonment for two years shall be imposed on individual violators, according to the bill.

If the violation is made by an organization or an institution, a fine of P10,000,000 and/or suspension of the privilege to operate within the Philippines shall be imposed, it added.

“The Modern Biotechnology Act of 2018 is in line with the National Economic and Development Authority’s [Neda] recognition of agricultural biotechnology as a priority sector with a direct impact on AmBisyon 2040,” Garin said.

The bill is currently pending with the House Committee on Science and Technology since August 6.

Jasper Emmanuel Y. Arcalas

DOF chief hopes CREATE reaches Duterte in Dec Moreover, taxpayers whose gross sales or receipts do not exceed the value-added tax (VAT)-exempt threshold of P3 million and are subject to the 3 percent percentage tax shall only pay 1 percent instead from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2023.

Proprietary and non stock educational institutions and hospitals are also among the major beneficiaries of the Senate version, as it reduces the preferential tax rates enjoyed by these entities from 10 percent to 1 percent from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2023.

The DOF added that the bill also paves the way for a long overdue fiscal incentives reform, especially now that the Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) will be supervising the investment promotion agencies although they will be maintaining their key functions and powers under their respective charters.

Aside from this, the FIRB is also in charge of approving the incentives for investments with capital exceeding P1 billion.

Dominguez said placing the governance of tax

incentives under the FIRB—chaired by the DOF and cochaired by the Department of Trade and Industry—mirrors international best practice and is a major win for the Filipino people, adding that it ensures the accountability and transparency in the grant of tax incentives.

On top of this, the DOF said the flexibility of incentives system is also enhanced under the bill to proactively attract investments that will bring exceptional benefits to the Filipino people.

Netting the relocated business

“THESE reforms in the fiscal incentives system are crucial for us to be able to compete for high-value investments, which are what we want to attract. The passage of CREATE is timely as many investors located in China are now looking for alternative destinations to avoid a repeat of the supply chain disruptions they encountered earlier when parts of China were locked down to prevent the spread of Covid-19,” Dominguez said.

Under CREATE, a Strategic Investment Priority

Plan (SIPP) shall be formulated every three years to identify priority projects or activities that will receive incentives.

The DOF also pointed out CREATE corrects the granting of incentives without a mechanism in place to assess their benefit to the economy.

A DOF study utilizing data made available through the Tax Incentives Management and Transparency Act (Timta) revealed that the government gave away P477.17 billion in tax discounts and exemptions to favored enterprises in 2018 alone.

The country’s finance chief also took a swipe at some sectors’ claim that CREATE has created uncertainty in the business community, arguing that “many investors have told us that they were waiting for the congressional passage of this corporate tax reform.”

“The success of TRAIN, CREATE, and other tax reform measures cannot be attributed exclusively to current efforts. In fact, our tax reform program is a logical continuation of the decades of reforms arduously passed by previous administrations,

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notably under Presidents Arroyo and Aquino,” he said. With CREATE, the Duterte administration has delivered five packages of its Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP), he noted.

To recall, the CREATE bill, was certified urgent by President Duterte, allowing the Senate on Thursday (November 26) to skip the required three-day rule between second and third readings of a bill under consideration. The House of Representatives had already approved the earlier version of CREATE, then known as the Corporate Income Tax and Incentives Rationalization Act (Citira) bill, in September last year.

Deliberations in the Senate became more protracted because the onset of the pandemic and its crippling lockdowns in March required tweaking the main goals of the measure, i.e., not just to reform tax systems but provide a stimulus for recession-hit businesses.

“We also thank the House of Representatives for passing last year its version of the corporate tax reform from which the Senate had adopted many features,” Dominguez said.

Concern raised on arriving ‘balikbayan’ and Covid risks continued from a16 As of November 27, additional staycation hotels include The Peninsula Manila (Makati), Aruga by Rockwell (Makati), Sheraton Manila Hotel (Pasay City), Hilton Manila (Pasay City), Lima Park Hotel (Malvar in Batangas), and Aquaria Water Park (Calatagan in

Batangas), according to a list from the Department of Tourism (DOT). This makes 20 hotels allowed to accept staycation guests, of which 14 are in Metro Manila.

Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo Puyat told the BusinessMirror

the balikbayan will have to check into quarantine hotels while waiting for their test results, “but they can leave [and go to staycation hotels] when their test results are negative.”

For his part, Tourism Congress of the Philippines President Jose C.

Clemente III said, “We welcome the decision by the IATF-EID to allow, balikbayan to finally come home. Their arrivals will be a big boost to many of our tourism businesses still suffering from the effects of the pandemic due to worldwide travel restrictions.

products will increase next year. “[Imports of] whole chicken increased but arrived in the first quarter—these were ordered last year in anticipation of a shift from pork to poultry.”

The country’s chicken meat imports during the period grew by almost 30 percent to 347,561.455 MT from last year’s 267,852.773 MT, BAI data showed.

BAI data also indicated that imports of chicken MDM, a raw material used for making processed meat products, grew by 30.6 percent to 235,696.105 MT from last year’s 180,383.425 MT. The country’s imports of chicken cuts grew 61 percent to 34,902.924 MT while purchases of chicken leg quarters from abroad grew by 18.46 percent to 67,019.42 MT. According to the agency attached to the Department of Agriculture, whole chicken imports more than quadrupled to 624.406 MT, from last year’s 140.661 MT.

BAI data also indicated that beef imports rose by 48.43 percent to 171,713.237 MT from last year’s 115,680.697 MT. Shipments of beef cuts grew by 42 percent while beef fats rose by 46.83 percent on an annual basis.

Likewise, imports of beef choice cuts more than doubled during the 10-month period.

The country’s 10-month imports of beef cuts were at 100,526.523 MT while choice cuts and beef fats reached 28,945.958 MT and 29,191.501 MT, respectively.

Cham said the increase in beef cuts and choice cuts could be attributed to higher demand from online sales and consumers shifting from pork while growth in beef fats was driven by higher demand from canned meat processors.

Pork i mp or t s du r i ng t he 10-month period declined by 28.59 percent to 205,535.416 MT from last year’s 287,825.814 MT due to high prices.

Demand, policies, financing seen to stretch out recovery continued from a16 At the time of the survey’s conduct, legislators were debating on whether to push through with the plan to reduce corporate income tax (CIT) and remove fiscal incentives.

Last week the Senate approved the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Act (CREATE) bill to conclude years and years of deliberation on the measure.

Industry groups representing domestic and foreign investors had opposed the CREATE bill, as it is seen to drive away exporters operating in economic zones. While on one hand it will trim CIT rate to 25 percent, from 30 percent, on the other it will lift incentives being enjoyed by investors, including the 5 percent tax on gross income paid in lieu of all local and national taxes.

Further, the Fall survey reported more than half of German investors in the Philippines, from 44 percent in the Spring edition, view financing as an impediment to recovery.

Zooming in on Covid-19’s impact, four in every five respondents pointed to the travel restrictions as the most damaging consequence of the pan-

demic. Likewise, 61 percent said the health crisis left them no choice but to cancel investments, while 55 percent lamented it reduced the demand for products and services.

The number of German firms who look to expand their labor force improved to 27 percent, from 9 percent in the Spring survey, but more than a third said they may lay off workers in the next 12 months to cope with income losses.

In a statement, Stefan Schmitz, president of the German-Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GPCCI), said investors now “see some light at the end of the tunnel.” However, much work needs to be done in addressing the risks and uncertainties in the economy, he added.

GPCCI Executive Director Martin Henkelmann also warned that the Philippines is lagging behind its Asia-Pacific rivals in terms of business outlook.

The GPCCI survey gathered the insights of 69 German firms in the country, over half of which belong to the services sector while the rest come from trade and industry. It was conducted from September 30 to October 19.

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Budget Secretary Wendel E. Avisado said on Sunday the DBM has no legal footing to endorse such a proposal for an EO. He told BusinessMirror he sent a letter last Friday to Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III informing the latter that the “case of subject fund transfers,” which are considered trust liabilities by the PITC, is “more properly categorized as an implementation issue among agencies and the PITC, and not a budgetary concern.”

The divergence of views between the Department of Finance and of DBM could further complicate the issues surrounding the PITC, a littleknow trading arm of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

The PITC became controversial after senators—citing state auditors’ findings—said it is keeping P33.4 billion in idle funds from various government agencies’ procurement outlays in an apparent bid to skirt budget requirements to return monies to the Treasury when these remain unspent within the year.

In a message to BusinessMirror on Sunday, Avisado explained, “Once the funds are transferred by government agencies to PITC, they become part of the PITC corporate funds.”

Moreover, Avisado said he also noted in his reply to Dominguez that PITC is already a “self-sustaining government corporation,” as it no longer receives budgetary

support from the DBM in terms of subsidy and equity.

He also pointed out that the case of trust liabilities, which is “outside the purview of the DBM,” may be best surpervised by the Department of Trade and Industry­— the PITC’s mother agency—or the Department of Finance-Corporate Affairs Group (DOF-CAG).

“Organizationally, the PITC is attached to the DTI, with the DTI Secretary sitting as Chair of the PITC Board. Further, DOF-CAG oversees GOCC [governmentowned and -controlled corporations] operations. Hence, the operational supervision may be best exercised by the DTI or the DOFCAG, particularly in the case of trust liabilities which are outside the purview of the DBM,” he said.

Avisado added that the documents attached to the DOF letter also “do not provide information on the status of the transferred funds to the PITC, whether it is completed, ongoing or discontinued projects.”

The DBM chief said, “Only such funds held by the PITC, so determined, will qualify for purposes of withdrawal and subsequent reversion to the BTr [Bureau of the Treasury],” he said.

Sought to c lar if y whether Dominguez has already responded to his letter, Avisado surmised that the letter has yet to be received by Dominguez given that he was only able to sign it late Friday afternoon.

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UK set to be first to approve Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine

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he UK is poised to become the first country to approve Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccine, ahead of a long line of countries waiting for protection from the coronavirus.

Clearance is possible as soon as early next week, according to a person familiar with the situation, who asked not to be identified because the process is confidential.

The UK had long signaled it would move fast on any promising vaccine candidate. Russia and China have cleared vaccines for general use, but they’re unlikely to be adopted in the US and Europe.

British doctors were put on standby for a possible rollout before Christmas.

The government invoked a special rule allowing the UK drug regulator to bypass its European Union counterpart as the country prepares for the Brexit transition period to conclude at the end of this year.

And the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency started its own accelerated review.

Earlier this week, the MHRA said it had the data it needed to assess whether the Pfizer vaccine meets required

standards and would “make a decision in the shortest time possible, without compromising the thoroughness of our review.” The shot was 95 percent effective in a clinical trial of almost 44,000 people, with no significant safety problems so far.

On Saturday, an MHRA spokesperson declined to comment. A BioNTech representative didn’t immediately have a comment. Pfizer said in a statement that it doesn’t speculate on how long the review process will last or how it will end.

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The first injections could take place from December 7, the Financial Times reported earlier.

The news that the UK could approve a vaccine comes as Nadhim Zahawi, a junior minister for the Department of Business, was appointed as minister overseeing the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines.

The UK has ordered enough doses of the two-shot Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to immunize 20 million people.

The first injections could take place from December 7, the Financial Times reported earlier. Bloomberg photo

The UK has ordered enough doses of the two-shot Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to immunize 20 million people, though that volume almost certainly won’t be available right away. The companies also have deals to supply hundreds of millions of shots to Europe, the US, Japan and elsewhere.

The Pfizer-BioNTech shot has raced to the head of the line after delays to

trials of a vaccine from AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford, which has also shown some promising signs in preliminary results from broad studies. Another one, from Moderna Inc., has also demonstrated effectiveness in late-stage trials.

According to the UK Press Association late Saturday, the government has secured another 2 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine, taking its total to 7 million. Bloomberg News

Pope raises 13 new cardinals, then puts them in their place

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OME—Pope Francis raised 13 new cardinals to the highest rank in the Catholic hierarchy on Saturday and immediately warned them not to use their titles for corrupt, personal gain, presiding over a ceremony marked from beginning to end by the coronavirus pandemic.

Two new “princes” of the church, from Brunei and the Philippines, didn't make it to Rome because of Covid-19 travel restrictions, though they were shown on giant screens watching it from home in the nearly empty St. Peter's Basilica.

Throughout the socially distanced ceremony, which clocked in at an unusually quick 45 minutes, cardinals new and old wore protective masks.

Most removed their masks when they approached a maskless Francis to receive their red hats, but Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the first African-American cardinal, kept his on. Gregory also was one of the only new cardinals who kept his mask on when the group paid a singing courtesy visit to retired Pope Benedict XVI. During his homily, Francis warned the new cardinals against falling into corruption or using their new rank for personal advancement, saying that just because they have a new title, “Eminence,” doesn’t mean they should drift from their people.

His comments reflected Francis’ constant complaint about the arrogance of the clerical class, as well as his current battles to fight corruption in the Vatican hierarchy.

“Let's think of so many types of corruption in the life of the priesthood," Francis told the new cardinals, deviating from his prepared text. If they think of themselves so grandly, “you won’t be pastors close to the people, you’ll just be “Eminence.” And if you feel this way, you’ll have strayed off the road,” the pope warned.

The ceremony, known as a consistory, is the seventh of Francis’ pontificate and once again reflected the Argentine pope’s effort to name cardinals from places that have never had them before or whose service to the church he wants to highlight. Nine are under age 80 and eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope, further solidifying the majority of Francis-appointed, voting-age prelates in the College of Cardinals.

Gregory, the new archbishop of Washington, told The Associated Press ahead of the ceremony that he viewed his appointment as “an affirmation of Black Catholics in the United States, the heritage of faith and fidelity that we represent.”

Gregory’s appointment comes after a year of racial protests in the US sparked by the latest killing of a Black man by a white police officer. Francis has endorsed

sador to the country, Cardinal Cornelius Sim. Rwanda also got its only cardinal with the archbishop of Kigali, Antoine Kambanda, whose family was slaughtered during the Rwandan genocide. Kambanda made the trip to Rome for the ceremony, Sim stayed home due to Covid-19 restrictions.

History’s first Jesuit pope has also increased the number of cardinals who belong to religious orders, naming three Franciscans this time around in a year in which the pope, who named himself after St. Francis of Assisi, released an encyclical inspired by the saint's call to fraternity and solidarity with the weakest. AP Pope Francis leaves at the end of a consistory ceremony where 13 bishops were elevated to a cardinal’s rank in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Saturday, November 28, 2020. Fabio Frustaci/POOL via AP

the protests and cited the American history of racial injustices.

“There is awareness now of the need for racial reconciliation, an awareness that I have not seen at this level and at this intensity before,” Gregory said.

Another social justice-minded cardinal is the retired archbishop of Chiapas, Mexico, Cardinal Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, who has championed the rights of Mexico’s indigenous peoples and spearheaded efforts to translate the Bible and liturgical texts into native languages.

Francis visited Chiapas in 2016 and has long championed the rights of indigenous peoples. “That could be one of the reasons [he made me a cardinal] but I can’t confirm it,” Esquivel said during a Zoom call.

The Vatican’s in-house theologianpreacher, Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, also got a red hat, but he successfully argued against being made a bishop as well, saying at his age—86—he couldn't take on the responsibility. He also eschewed a red cassock for Saturday’s ceremony, using instead his brown hooded friar’s robes covered with a white “rochet” vestment.

After the ceremony, Francis and the new cardinals paid a visit to Benedict, who lives across the Vatican gardens in a converted monastery. Francis, again sans mask, greeted his predecessor warmly.

The cardinals greeted Benedict, kissed his hand and sang a prayer as the retired pope, who is 93 and frail, listened. Only Gregory and one other new cardinal kept his mask on during the encounter.

The ceremony took place against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, which erupted in Italy in February and has seen a resurgence this fall. The Vatican is under a modified lockdown, with the Vatican Museums shuttered and

Francis’ public general audiences cancelled. Instead he holds them in private, live streamed.

The cardinal candidates and others who came to Rome from afar for Saturday’s service were required to undergo 10 days of Vatican-mandated quarantine at the pope’s hotel, where meals were brought to their rooms.

Usually, consistories are full of parties and crowds, with days of receptions, Masses and dinners for the new cardinals and their friends. The consistory itself is normally followed by “courtesy visits,” where the new cardinals greet well-wishers and the general public from the grandeur of their own reception rooms in the Apostolic Palace or Vatican auditorium. This year, there were no courtesy visits, and each cardinal was given a 10-guest limit.

With Saturday's new cardinals, Francis has named 73 of the 128 voting-age cardinals, compared to 39 for Pope Benedict XVI and 16 for St. John Paul II. While the outcome of a future conclave can never be predicted, it’s not a stretch to suggest that a hefty majority of today's electors presumably share the pastoral and doctrinal attitudes of the pope who named them.

The geographical makeup of the College of Cardinals has also shifted under Francis away from Europe, though Europe remains the greatest voting bloc with 53 electors. The Americas—North, Central and South and the Caribbean— together have 37 cardinal electors, even though an estimated 40 percent of the world’s Catholics live in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Francis has continued the trend of naming cardinals from the “peripheries"”of the Catholic Church: Brunei got its firstever cardinal with the Vatican’s ambas-

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Black Friday sees record online sales as US shoppers stay home

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lack Friday online sales hit a new record this year as pandemic-wary Americans filled virtual carts instead of real ones.

Consumers spent an estimated $9 billion on US retail websites on Black Friday, according to Adobe Analytics, which tracks online shopping. That was a 22 percent increase over the previous record of $7.4 billion set in 2019.

Meanwhile, traffic to physical stores plummeted as retailers tried to prevent crowds by cutting their hours and limiting doorbuster deals. US store visits dropped by 52 percent on Black Friday, according to Sensormatic Solutions, a retail tracker. Traffic was slower in the Northeast and West than in the Midwest and South, said Brian Field, Sensormatic’s senior director of global retail consulting.

Jewelry and footwear saw some of the biggest inperson sales declines, according to RetailNext, a shopping tracker. Apparel sales were down 50 percent, while sales of home goods fell by 39 percent.

Even with that drop, Black Friday will still likely end up as one of the biggest in-person shopping days in the US this year, Field said. He thinks many people will still shop for the holidays in person, but will choose midweek days when crowds are smaller. Heavier in-store discounts and concerns about lengthy shipping times could also draw shoppers closer to Christmas.

“Black Friday had a lot to lose, but some of it is going to be distributed throughout the holiday season,” Field said.

One trend that could remain after the pandemic ends is that stores could remain closed on Thanksgiving Day, Field said. Since 2013, a growing number of stores had opened on Thanksgiving to match their competitors and get a jump-start on Black Friday. But it's typically not a big day for retailers, and this year many stayed closed.

Thanksgiving store traffic was down 95 percent, he said.

Field said stores may be rethinking the cost of paying employees and opening on Thanksgiving when they could easily make up for those sales online.

“I wonder, now that we’re seeing a season where they were able to cut the cord on it, if it will give them pause,” he said.

Adobe expects Monday to be the largest online sales day in US history, with estimated spending of $10.8 billion to $12.7 billion.

One reason for the big numbers is that people are shopping online for things such as groceries and alcohol that they bought in person before the pandemic, Adobe said. As for more traditional gifts, Hot Wheels cars, Lego sets, Apple AirPods, Samsung televisions and video games are among the biggest sellers.

Big retailers such as Walmart and Target benefited from the surge, but small retailers did as well, Adobe said. Sales at big stores surged by 403 percent on Thanksgiving and Black Friday compared to the daily average in October, but sales at smaller retailers also grew by 349 percent. AP

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Trump vs Biden on China

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nited States foreign policy took a definitive and robust turn under the Trump administration as it shifted from the aggressive “combatboots-on-the-ground” of previous administrations. It needs to be noted that during the Obama years, the US military was engaged in combat operations every day of those eight years.

President Donald J. Trump did not commit US forces to action but also reduced US military deployments overseas, particularly in the Middle East theater.

Early 20th century US President Theodore Roosevelt’s approach to foreign policy was “speak softly and carry a big stick.” His idea was to negotiate peacefully, but also having strength in case things go wrong. Roosevelt described his style of foreign policy as “the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis.” The Obama administration has been characterized as “carrying a big stick only against smaller countries.”

In his 2012 presidential election campaign against Barack Obama, Republican candidate Mitt Romney said that he considered Russia as the No. 1 “geopolitical foe” to the United States. This was loudly mocked by Obama as a throwback to the US mindset about Russia from the 1980s Cold War. But both Obama and Trump regarded Russia as a “European problem.” When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the US response was useless economic sanctions. In 2015, Donald Trump said, “The US should only step in on Crimea if European countries ask for help and, until then, it remains ‘Europe’s problem.’ This is Europe’s problem much more than ours. And Europe isn’t complaining as much as we are.”

However, there is a potentially huge gap between Trump and presumptive President-elect Joseph Biden Jr. about China. Biden was Obama’s vice president when China built its artificial islands and kicked the Philippines out of Panatag Shoal with barely a raised eyebrow.

In 2011, private citizen Trump said: “China is neither an ally or a friend—they want to beat us and own our country.” And “Why do we continue to sit idly by while China steals our national security and corporate secrets? China is an enemy, not a friend.”

While talking tough during the recent campaign season, Biden has always had a more cooperative and conciliatory approach. In 2001 he strongly supported granting China Most Favored Nation trade status believing that concession would make China more accommodating. As late as last May, Biden said, “China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man…they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what: they’re not competition for us.”

What about US policy towards China as it regards the Philippines? “China has also unlawfully claimed territory in the Pacific Ocean, threatening freedom of navigation and international trade.

And they broke their word to the world on ensuring the autonomy of Hong Kong. The Chinese government has continually violated its promises to us and so many other nations.” That is a quote from a speech given in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 29, 2020 by President Trump.

During his term of office, Trump has used the stick of trade sanctions in an attempt to bring China into line. Biden’s tactics will be fundamentally different from those of Trump. As outlined during his campaign and by various members of his national security advisors, Biden could pressure Beijing more effectively than President Trump by galvanizing US allies and criticizing its human rights record.

Celebrating the holidays amid the pandemic Atty. Jose Ferdinand M. Rojas II

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ecently I came across a Facebook post talking about how different (and difficult) this year’s holiday season will be for many people. The post went on to encourage Facebook users to be more mindful about the things that they post.

And as we are reminded of this, the National Telecommunications Commission has been sending SMS messages, too, to remind Filipinos to avoid gatherings. If it can’t be avoided, then adequate safety measures must be taken. We’re all still anxious about the virus and how the holiday season might lead to a new wave of infections.

Indeed, so many things are not the same this year. The malls and shops are not as crowded. Parties and reunions are being skipped, and celebrations will be limited to the

home. Despite all that, the spirit of the season remains. It is a time to reflect, be grateful for our blessings, and to show love and kindness to our fellowmen.

It goes without saying that those who are able must reach out to fellow Filipinos who are experiencing loss and suffering because of the recent typhoons and the pandemic situation. Some people are undertaking projects and donating proceeds to legitimate organizations. Others collect food packs, goods, or cash from friends and neighbors to contribute

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to the cause. Let’s not forget the animals—we can donate pet food or cash to organizations that take care of animals. It would be great to share information about all of these campaigns and groups so other people can help, too.

If we have friends or acquaintances running small businesses especially for Christmas—selling gift items or food and dishes—our support would prove valuable to them.

Buy your holiday needs from them, and share info about their business if possible, especially those business owners who are hardest hit by recent events.

This year it is quite alright to forego the gifts for loved ones. Or maybe we can make a donation in their name to a certain cause. We can also send care packages to friends we can’t see this Christmas, especially those who will be celebrating the holidays alone.

For households with children, a special holiday activity or family bonding time would be to write handwritten thank you notes for our frontliners, doctors, nurses, teachers, essential workers, and other individuals who may need a little inspiration during this time. Send it with a box of Christmas cookies or some other holiday treats, if you’re up to it.

And since plenty of people are getting sick and needing blood, those who are able to donate blood are being encouraged to give this gift of life.

Make sure to follow the hospital’s instructions on safety.

If you are going out, always wear your mask and face shield. Stay away from crowds and practice physical distancing. The virus is still here but hopefully, by God’s grace, next Christmas will be better.

A tree for every vehicle program, and urban reforestation

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✝ Ambassador Antonio L. Cabangon Chua

Indeed, so many things are not the same this year. The malls and shops are not as crowded. Parties and reunions are being skipped, and celebrations will be limited to the home. Despite all that, the spirit of the season remains. It is a time to reflect, be grateful for our blessings, and to show love and kindness to our fellowmen.

Thomas M. Orbos

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ecently, the Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board issued Memorandum Circular 2020-06, requiring all public transport operator-applicants to engage in tree planting in order for them to be granted their franchise. This is welcome news considering the environmental damage due to the carbon emissions from fossil fuel fed vehicles. Based on the directive, franchise applicants need to plant one tree for every public transport franchise applied for. Following their lead, I have some further suggestions.

First, why not apply the reforestation program to all motorized vehicle registrations and not just limited to those who operate public transport? On the road, there is no difference. All motorized vehicles emit harmful carbon particulates. A tree for every vehicle program makes sense, and this will dramatically increase the number of trees to more than 10 million, which is equivalent to the number of vehicles registered annually. This will equate to more carbon reduction and cleaner air.

The program can even be designed to increase the number of trees one is required to plant according to the type of engine and engine displacement of the vehicle. It should be so, because bigger ones consume more fuel and therefore emit more harmful particles. There will, however, be

exemptions, such as those seeking to register electric and hybrid vehicles.

And such exemptions, bundled with other built-in incentives and subsidies, will encourage and reward motorists shifting to non-fuel vehicles, which is beneficial to all in the long run.

Second, let’s tweak this program to focus on urban reforestation.

Rather than tree-planting in general, it would be more relevant if we apply the program to the urban jungles of our cities, for a number of reasons. One, trees in urban areas contribute to greater carbon mitigation—at source. Transport currently account for the second highest source of greenhouse gases in our country.

And most transport related activities happen in urban areas. Hence, having reforestation where the most carbon

There are other benefits to urban reforestation. They prevent soil erosion and are natural flood control defenses. Trees also provide city habitat for disappearing species of birds and wildlife and make good noise absorption, helping de-stress the already high-strung city populace.

emissions happen will provide the greater margin of carbon reduction.

This does not downplay, of course, the need to recover forested areas in our mountain ranges. But there are already existing government reforestation programs that just need to be strictly enforced and monitored.

There are other benefits to urban reforestation. They prevent soil erosion and are natural flood control defenses. Trees also provide city habitat for disappearing species of birds and wildlife and make good noise absorption, helping de-stress the already high-strung city populace.

Then planting some fruit-bearing trees (and vegetables) will naturally help increase urban food supply.

Plus, we all talk about encouraging everyone to bike and walk. Urban reforestation provides an encouraging environment for such activities, leading to lesser public health costs, and the budget can then be re-aligned to other priorities such as education and social welfare. Having all of the above will equate to a better quality of life that will also increase the overall value of urban real estate, as more

and more people will be attracted to live in these areas.

Managing these urban forests can even be tied in to motor vehicle usage. Have the vehicle owners that planted such trees take care of them at least for six months or until the trees can survive on their own. Have traffic violations connected to plant management activities, similar to community services. In this manner, maintenance costs of these urban forests can be brought down, not to mention the social impact it will bring to the public, especially to the motoring community.

There are only pluses and not minuses to the tree-planting program that the government initiated. And expanding this to cover all other vehicles and concentrating this on urban reforestation will all the more add value to such initiative. Urban cities, in the normal course of things, cause much harm to the environment given the carbon footprint that city activities leave behind. But done properly and given the proper direction and support by the government, our urban way of life can help reverse the damage being done. A tree for every vehicle program and urban reforestation can be a good initiative to make this happen.

Thomas “Tim” Orbos is currently a transport policy advisor for an international organization and worked in government on transport and urban development matters. He is an alumnus of Georgetown University and the MIT Sloan School of Management. He can be reached via e-mail—tmo45@ georgetown.edu /thomas_orbos@sloan.mit.edu

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Throwback thanksforgiving Siegfred Bueno Mison, Esq.

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N business, sales and marketing mean two different things. Marketing lays down the foundation for sales as it deals with research and thorough understanding of the industry and of consumer behavior. This helps firms arrive at communications and promotions strategies that are in line with the company’s goals and objectives.

The different marketing strategies that are executed are then made possible by sales. These activities involve customer interaction prior, during and after each sale.

Today, there lies a thin line between sales and marketing, since digitization has somewhat made these two concepts more closely interrelated. Here are some tips to help you efficiently and effectively execute digital sales and digital marketing.

Marketing involves heavy research of the industry, trends and the audience or target market.

Changes in market needs and wants are more prevalent as it is important to adapt to our fast paced digital world.

When the word digital marketing is mentioned, the word social media immediately comes into play.

Generally, this includes Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, depending on the business model and overall strategy. Whatever the platform, it is important to utilize it by creating two-way dialogues with customers and engaging with them.

This heightens both customer and brand experience.

Apart from social media, it is also good to consider diversifying, using other marketing tools such as email marketing, SEO, SEM, virtual reality and augmented reality. Careful planning, execution and evaluation of each tool and its effect on the business must be undertaken on a regular basis. Remember not to overuse these tools, however.

When it comes to responding to customers, the rule of thumb is to

respond to them as soon as possible.

Technology has heightened the need for more immediate response, most especially since there are customer relationship management tools that are readily available in the market.

A perfect example would be the integration of chatbots to ensure that each inquiry or concern is attended to immediately and appropriately.

The same rule holds true for digital sales, that is, to know your customers. Understanding the persona of buyers will allow you to prepare your pitch and sell in a more personalized or targeted manner. In this way, it will become easier for you to equip your sales team, if any, with more information and techniques on how to close the deal more effectively and efficiently.

At the end of the day, it all boils down to statistics or what is also referred to as data analytics. It will always be to our advantage to capture data, interpret and analyze data and from there, integrate them into the overall strategic plan.

(To be continued) Dorelene Dimaunahan is an entrepreneur, educator of the country’s top universities, a host and an author. She is also a Certified Franchise Executive, Certified Management Accountant and a Certified Human Resources Practitioner.

This column accepts contributions from the business community. Articles not exceeding 600 words can be e-mailed to boa.secretariat.@gmail.com.

What Janet Yellen doesn’t know

By Karl W. Smith Bloomberg Opinion

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anet Yellen, Presidentelect Joe Biden’s reported pick as Treasury secretary, is surely one of the most qualified nominees for the job in history. Not only has she been chair of the Federal Reserve and the White House Council of Economic Advisers, but she also enjoys widespread bipartisan respect, which will benefit her in coming negotiations over Covid relief. The markets are right to be impressed.

At the same time: Her priorities in her previous jobs will not carry over, nor should they, to her next one. Yellen has been less concerned with full employment, and more with the long-term debt, than is ideal right now.

In her term as Fed chair, Yellen was notably dovish—that is, reluctant to raise interest rates—relative to the academic consensus. She gets credit for that, but since then it has become clear that this consensus was even more wrong than previously thought.

Unlike her successor Jerome Powell, Yellen was too hesitant to question its fundamental assumptions.

Specifically, economists in 2014 and 2015 began to argue that the percentage of US adults in the labor force (either working or looking for work) was on a downward trajectory that couldn’t be reversed simply by trying to grow the economy faster through fiscal or monetary policy.

Yellen agreed with this framework, and that helps explain why she began raising interest rates in 2015.

Instability in the currency markets forced her to pause, but she didn’t abandon the core thesis and raised interest rates again in 2016. That hike led to a micro-recession that may very well have cost Hillary Clinton the presidency.

Even still, Yellen remained reluctant to abandon the framework.

As late as 2017, she argued that the labor market did not show evidence of substantial slack and that the decline in overall employment was due to permanently reduced opportunities for low-skilled men.

A chorus of commentators, myself included, pushed back, arguing that by running the economy hot, it was possible to draw people back into the workforce. Powell and the Trump administration took these criticisms to heart, producing the strongest economy for workers since at least the 1990s.

Yellen has also repeatedly raised alarms about America’s long-term debt, including as recently as February. This is despite an emerging awareness among economists that the dangers of the debt are likely overblown and that the Congressional Budget Office forecasts, on which Yellen leaned, have repeatedly overestimated long-term interest rates and therefore the burden of the federal debt on the economy.

These misjudgments alone do not disqualify Yellen. But they do raise concerns that she could shift the debate prematurely toward deficit reduction and away from increasing employment. This is precisely the mistake made during Barack Obama’s presidency.

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istory tells us that this thanksgiving tradition came from the early colonists in America where pilgrims celebrate a good harvest with Native Americans who helped them get through the previous winter. Modern day Americans are supposed to perpetually keep this fourth Thursday of November holy and as a day to give thanks to Almighty God. Incidentally, Thanksgiving holiday is also the busiest travel season in the US where families converge to share a home-cooked turkey meal and to shop during the most anticipated sales event in the US—Black Friday Sale!

In contrast, Christmas is the much-awaited holiday in the Philippines, where the spirit of giving comes out naturally brought about perhaps by the Christmas carols and colors. Last week, Christmas was celebrated in advance in the Supreme Court. It was not Santa Claus who came with a bag of gifts but Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen as he brought in a sack of mercy for his “accuser”—Solicitor General Jose Calida who filed a motion to intervene and to inhibit Leonen from the election protest of former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos against Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo. Leonen purportedly threatened to sue Calida for graft for having allegedly sided with Marcos. Some lawyers opined that Calida ought to be sanctioned since his office being a non party-litigant to the case, had no standing to file such motion.

Leonen was ready to fight back and fight hard as he felt offended, like any magistrate would, when he was asked to inhibit from the case.

When Leonen faced the challenge hurled by Calida, in a period where his integrity and competence are sought to be shaken, Leonen made a conscious decision about how he was going to finally react.

The magistrate accepted “what is,” handed out leniency and experi-

enced thanksgiving in his heart by choosing to forgive. He even alluded to the restrained noun “misunderstanding” when referring to the other person’s finger-pointing.

Leonen’s largesse was in the form of a letter addressed to his colleagues, which stated, among others, that “forgiveness is often the more decent consequence of another’s misunderstanding.” The Leonen-Calida conflict-turned-Grace-story speaks a lot about how we respond to attacks. Some of us persevere through the hardships, others grumble and carry the heaviness in their hearts.

A few presumably go for gratitude, in the spirit of thanksforgiving.

Anthony Ray Hinton was a Black American who was wrongfully convicted of murder, served 28 years in prison in solitary confinement in a five-by-seven-foot cell, allowed out only one hour a day. In 2015, when the US Supreme Court unanimously overturned his conviction on appeal and caused the government to drop all charges against him, Hinton was asked in an interview if he was angry at the people who put him in jail. Hinton responded by saying that he forgave them all. When further asked, “but they took 30 years of your life— how can you not be angry?” Hinton responded: “If I’m angry and unforgiving, they will have taken the rest

of my life.” Nelson Mandela of South Africa once said, “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”

Such forgiveness is an overt act of gratitude. After all the hardships Hinton went through for 28 years, he still opted to be forgiving. In the same vein, although the hurt was not as deep as Hinton’s, Leonen showed some class as he displayed a throwback “thanksforgiving” to the greatest act of mercy, and gratitude, history has ever recorded. Throwback to the time of Jesus Christ, we see both forgiveness and thanksgiving in action, grace and gratitude in motion. With particular reference to the Bible in Luke 23:34, when Jesus was crucified along with two criminals, facing pain and mockery, he still had the heart to forgive, saying: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

When the other thief was repentant, and humbly acknowledging his sin, it only took his glaring faith in the person crucified next to him to receive the promise of salvation when he pleaded (in Luke 23:42): “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” Then he got this reply (v.43): “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

Such an awesome act of grace! And immediate at that! I am certain that the penitent thief breathed his last in absolute thanksgiving realizing that his sins were forgiven.

Relatedly, the root word of forgive is the Latin word “perdonare,” meaning, “to give completely, without reservation.” If we were to look at the word forgive as a compound word—“For” (or Fore) being the first word and “Give” the last, then forgive can mean to bestow voluntarily to another, way before any reason to do so. In practice, however, people usually forgive another, after, not before, having any reason to respond. By etymology, the word forgive means a remission of an offense; whereas forgive, in its compound meaning,

means absolution, regardless. Believers can decide to forgive others before there is a reason to forgive, even if those who wronged them do not ask for forgiveness, much less deserve it.

In the Bible, Matthew 6:14-15 tells us, “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.”

If we are on the recipient side of forgiveness (like Calida and Hinton’s accusers), we should be thankful and walk in the path of grace from that day forward. Armed with such grace, we can also pay it back in keeping with what the Bible tells us in Colossians 3:13, which says, “The Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.” We cannot be grateful and at the same time sit in the chair of guilt. Once we believe and claim to have been forgiven, then our transgressions are wiped clean, and our thankful hearts will propel us to walk in righteousness. Any inclination to revert to the act for which we were forgiven would be anathema to our receipt of grace.

A heart that is both thankful and forgiving does not sow hatred against others. There is no point to be perpetually angry at anyone who hurt us. As sinners, we have been forgiven way before there was any reason to forgive. Whenever we celebrate thanksgiving, we should be reminded that we receive forgiveness only through His grace. Like coffee and sugar, grace becomes more delightful if accompanied with gratitude.

A former infantry and intelligence officer in the Army, Siegfred Mison showcased his servant leadership philosophy in organizations such as the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Malcolm Law Offices, Infogix Inc., University of the East, Bureau of Immigration, and Philippine Airlines. He is a graduate of West Point in New York, Ateneo Law School, and University of Southern California. A corporate lawyer by profession, he is an inspirational teacher and a Spirit-filled writer with a mission.

For questions and comments, please e-mail me at sbmison@gmail.com.

Put civics back in the classroom, right now

By Andrea Gabor | Bloomberg Opinion

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he presidential election seemed to mark a revival in American civic engagement. A record two-thirds of the electorate voted. Candidates raised at least $3 billion in small-dollar donations, and historic get-out-the-vote efforts had an impact in Nevada, Georgia and elsewhere.

Yet large numbers of Americans appear to believe President Donald Trump’s baseless charges of election fraud. Civic life and discourse have been eroded by the normalization of lying by elected leaders, the dissemination of disinformation via social media and the attempted weaponization of the courts to undermine confidence in voting.

Has there ever been a better time for a revival of civics education?

Not your father’s bland civics, with its how-a-bill-becomes-law tedium, but a vigorous set of lessons about American society and government that encourages fact-based exchanges of views and civil debate about controversial topics without taking sides in contemporary disputes about such issues as abortion or immigration policy.

Civics should begin with a common narrative that Americans can agree on, beginning with what the Declaration of Independence and Constitution say about the role and structure of US government.

It should explore the definition of citizenship and how it has evolved over the course of 250 years via such documents as the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address, the Seneca Falls Declaration on women’s rights, and the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. It should address the role of the Electoral College, how it works, and how votes are counted.

And it should examine the prerogatives of state and local governments and their relationship to the federal government.

A foundational civics course must include uncomfortable truths.

That would mean delving into the three-fifths compromise of the constitutional convention, which made slaves count toward the congressional representation of slave states without granting them any political rights, along with the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Supreme Court’s sanction of Japanese internment during World War II and its 2018 decision to overturn that precedent. But divisive and complex debates about the degree to which slavery shaped American society should be left to more advanced classes.

Civics should also make room for local variations in content and execution. For example, the terms on which Southern states were readmitted to the union following the Civil War might receive more emphasis in the South, and the role of the 1787 Northwest Ordinances in expanding statehood could be stressed in the West.

The refreshing of civics curricula in Illinois and Florida provide a roadmap for how states should approach the topic today. Illinois’s civics mandate, especially a requirement that classes discuss “current and controversial issues,” is especially important. The law passed overwhelmingly in 2015 with bipartisan support—Illinois was among 11 states that previously had no civics mandate—and was signed by former Governor Bruce Rauner, a Republican. (While Illinois had long required high schools to teach two

years of social studies, including one year of American history, the law now requires that at least one semester be devoted to civics.)

Facilitating constructive discussions of controversial topics requires special teacher training.

Illinois offered all civics teachers professional development courses over a three-year period, and created a mentoring program for civics teachers, especially in schools with no previous civics course—as many as 13 percent of the total. The problem is that the state didn’t set aside money for the training, relying instead on philanthropies; a subject as important as civics should have a dedicated funding stream for educators and schools.

Nor should the introduction of civics concepts wait until high school.

Last year, Illinois added middle school to the grades that must provide civics instruction. Similarly, Florida’s decade-old civics law makes passing a middle-school civics course a requirement for high school matriculation.

A well-designed middle-school civics test could support fact-based debate and is arguably less onerous than a high-school graduation requirement; students who fail the class (in Florida the test accounts for just 30 percent of the middleschool civics grade) could retake the test and go on to high school. When the coronavirus pandemic recedes, states should consider eliminating all middle-school testing in lieu of a single meaty civics test that might include geography and some economics.

When it comes to civics, states have a lot of ground to make up.

For decades, government policies, including state testing mandates and federal initiatives like President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind program and President Barack Obama’s support for Com-

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mon Core, have focused on college and workplace readiness. Civics instruction got short shrift and was often abandoned.

As attacks on democratic institutions picked up steam during the Trump presidency, civics remained an afterthought. As of 2018, only eight states required students to take a yearlong civics and government class. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, which is considered the nation’s report card, dropped its 4th- and 12th-grade civics and American history exam in 2014. Few recent state civics efforts succeeded.

Now, as a few states begin to pursue a civics revival, one concern is political interference from the left and right. California Governor Gavin Newsom just vetoed an ethnic studies law that threatened to erode time and effort spent on other subjects, including civics. Last year, Florida’s legislature passed a bill requiring the state to review civics materials, a concern at a time when Republican lawmakers and Governor Ron DeSantis have promoted Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud.

But civics instruction needn’t take sides to promote democratic involvement. Last year, Massachusetts became the first state to require schools to coordinate nonpartisan student-led civics projects.

The redesigned Advanced Placement US government and politics course taken by many college-bound students also requires students to work on a civics project, either partisan or not.

States should borrow good ideas from each other, including Florida’s emphasis on middle-school civics and Illinois’s focus on constructive debate. A shared narrative will be stronger if buttressed by productive argument and brought to life by civic action.

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DOF chief hopes CREATE reaches Duterte in Dec

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@BNicolasBM

INANCE Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III is optimistic the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) bill will be submitted to President Duterte’s signature this December.

This, as he welcomed the Senate’s passage of the bill, which the Department of Finance (DOF) said will finally put in place long-needed reforms in the country’s corporate tax and fiscal incentives system.

“We thank the Senate under the leadership of Senate President Vicente Sotto III, Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri,

and Senate Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Pia Cayetano, for tirelessly working to ensure that the CREATE bill is approved in time for pandemic-hit enterprises to benefit from this measure,” Dominguez said in a statement at the weekend.

The Finance department has also since dubbed the measure as

one of the largest economic stimulus measures in the country’s history to help people recover from the economic turmoil caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

CIT cut retroacts to July 1

“This will allow taxpayers to properly adjust their books and returns for the filing season as the reduction of the CIT

[corporate income tax] rate will be retroactively applied to July 1 of this year,” Dominguez said.

O n T hu rsd ay, t he Sen ate approved on third and final reading the CREATE bill after 14 months of working closely with DOF. Under the Senate’s version of the CREATE bill, domestic corporations with total assets, excluding land, of

not more than P 100 million and net taxable income of P5 million and below will enjoy an immediate 10 percentage point reduction in the CIT rate, from 30 to 20 percent.

All other corporations will benefit from an immediate reduction of the CIT from 30 percent to 25 percent.

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CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

16.

XIE, LIWEI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

53.

YANG, YOU Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

17.

YANG, JINLONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

54.

YU, HUA Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

YANG, NAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

55.

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CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

94.

CHEN, BO-LIN a.k.a.

CHEN, CHIEN-WEI Taiwanese

95.

CHEN, JIANGWEI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

19.

YU, JIAYU Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

56.

ZHONG, BIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

20.

ZENG, WENLONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

57.

CHEN, LINGLING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

96.

CHEN, GUANG Chinese

21.

ZHANG, SEN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

22.

LIU, WEI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

23.

QIN, JINXIA Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

24.

XU, HONGYANG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

25.

ZHANG, HAIYANG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

26.

ZHAO, QIANG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

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97.

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CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

60.

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98.

CHOU, KUAN-TING Taiwanese

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61.

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99.

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101.

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103.

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CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

104.

LEI, JUNFEI Chinese

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105.

LI, WANGBIAO Chinese

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106.

LIN, CHE CHENG Taiwanese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

107.

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MICHAEL LIN Taiwanese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

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LIN, TZU-FENG Taiwanese

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68.

NGUYEN HOAI PHUONG Vietnamese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

69.

NGUYEN THI HIEN Vietnamese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

70.

VONG A PHUNG Vietnamese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

108.

MU, QIULING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

109.

NEO BING WEI, KELVIN Singaporean

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110.

REN, LONG Chinese

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SHIH, YU-JEN Taiwanese

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PRODUCT OPERATION EXECUTIVE (KOREAN SPEAKING)

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KANG, HYUNSEOK South Korean

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71.

WU, JIE Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

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YU, HEQI Chinese

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POSITION

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

124.

CHONG SHAU KANG Malaysian

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

125.

DENG, MENGMENG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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FU, JIAYI Chinese

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HE, YIJIE Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

128.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

129.

HUANG, TENGQUAN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

130.

HUANG, WANGUO Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

131.

HUANG, ZEXIN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

132.

HUANG, ZHENGKANG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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HUANG, ZHENHUI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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HUANG, HUAZHEN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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JESIN MARVIANA Indonesian

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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KANG, XIONG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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KYAW NAING OO Myanmari

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

138.

LAM KIM KIEU Vietnamese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

139.

LAN, JIAN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

140.

LI, LIYING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

141.

LI, YANNAN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

142.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

143.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

144.

LIANG, YITING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

145.

LIANG, YANPING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

146.

LIEW FOCK FUI Malaysian

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

147.

LIN, QIDONG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

148.

LIN, JIAMAO Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

149.

LIU, JIANFENG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

150.

MENG, JUNYING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

151.

MENG, WEILIANG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

152.

MIAO, HAOLIN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

153.

PANG, LIUQING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

154.

PENG, ZHIXING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

155.

QIN, ZHIXUAN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

156.

QIN, JIAJUN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

157.

QU, SIYUAN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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SHI, PEIYU Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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347.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

286.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

348.

ZHANG, BILIN Chinese

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163.

SUN, PENG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

225.

LIAO, QIANSONG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

287.

ZHOU, SHAOJIAO Chinese

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349.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

164.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

226.

LIN, HAO Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

288.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

350.

LI, YONGCHEN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

165.

TAO, JIAXING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

227.

LIN, JI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

289.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

166.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

228.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

290.

ZHOU, JIANZHONG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

352.

THIHA NAING Myanmari

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

167.

TRUONG VAN DUC Vietnamese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

229.

LING, HUIYU Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

291.

ZONG, WENJIE Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

353.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

168.

WANG, HAOHAO Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

230.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

292.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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232.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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233.

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295.

HOANG THANH TUNG Vietnamese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

172.

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234.

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296.

HUANG, CHUNHONG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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301.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

302.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

179.

XIAO, SITAO Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

241.

MENG, KUNYU Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

303.

QIN, QINGPING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

180.

YAN, PANHONG Chinese

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242.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

306.

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183.

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245.

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COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST

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310.

LIN, XINTAO Chinese

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363.

ZIN MIN KHAING Myanmari

COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST

187.

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249.

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311.

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364.

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312.

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192.

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255.

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317.

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370.

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256.

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318.

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371.

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195.

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319.

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372.

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MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

196.

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258.

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320.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

373.

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197.

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259.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

321.

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374.

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MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

198.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

260.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

322.

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375.

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MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

199.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

261.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

323.

WANG, GONGXIANG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

376.

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MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

200.

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263.

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378.

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202.

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264.

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326.

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379.

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MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

203.

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265.

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327.

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380.

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204.

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266.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

328.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

381.

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MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

205.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

267.

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329.

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382.

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MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

206.

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330.

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207.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

269.

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384.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

333.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

386.

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MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

210.

HUANG, LINGXI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

272.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

334.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

387.

ZHONG, GENGGENG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

211.

HUANG, HANYU Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

273.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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336.

GUAN, QIANSHUI Chinese

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COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST

213.

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

337.

QIU, YUEXI Chinese

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THET HTAR MAY Myanmari

COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST

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CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

276.

YAN, BEI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

338.

QUAN, YONGLE Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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YEO SHUN HUA Malaysian

COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST

215.

LI, ZHIBIN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

277.

YANG, HAIFENG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

339.

SHEN, DONGMING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

392.

CHANG, JIWEI Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

216.

LI, YINGHUA Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

278.

YANG, SIJING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

340.

SU, BINGDI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

393.

DENG, GUANGMEI Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

217.

LI, QING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

279.

YEE KWONG HOCK Malaysian

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

341.

SU, FULAI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

394.

LI, LU Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

218.

LI LI AYE Myanmari

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

280.

YI, JIBANG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

342.

SU, SIHAI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

395.

LI, TINGTING Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

219.

LIANG, HUALONG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

281.

YI, CHUNZHEN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

343.

WANG, YUNPENG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

396.

LI, XIAOXIN Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

220.

LIANG, ANXIN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

282.

YU, XIA Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

344.

WANG, GUOMING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

397.

LIN, MUZHEN Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

221.

LIANG, ANGUO Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

283.

ZENG, MINGRUI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

345.

WANG, HUOSHENG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

398.

LIN, ALING Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

ASK ASIA SOLUTIONS INC. 1608 16/f New World Manila Bay Hotel 1588 M. H Del Pilar Cor. Pedro Gil Sts. 076 Bgy. 699 Malate Manila 354.

YAN, HUI Chinese

FINANCE MANAGER

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED 14/f Solaris One Bldg. Dela Rosa St. San Lorenzo Makati City 355.

PINTO, RUFUS Australian

COUNTRY HEAD, PHILIPPINES

ASIAN TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, INC. 11/f Tower 2 Double Dragon, Macapagal Blvd. Brgy. 076 Pasay City 356.

CHOI, CHANG-UI South Korean

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

357.

KANG, JIKANG South Korean

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

ASIATYPE, INCORPORATED 14/f, Columbia Tower Ortigas Avenue Unit 141-145 & 147-149 Brgy.

Mandaluyong City 358.

KÖRWER, KARL-HEINZ German

GERMAN MARKET CONSULTANT

AVANTICE CORPORATION 19/f Pbcom Tower Ayala Ave. Bel-air Makati City 359.

CHEN, I-CHUN Taiwanese

CUSTOMER INSIGHT MANAGER

360.

LU, ZHENG Chinese

RISK AND COMPLIANCE EXECUTIVE

BETTZEIT SOUTHEAST ASIA INC. Office Q & R 12th Floor Four/ Neo Building 4th Ave. Corner 30th St. Bgc Fort Bonifacio Taguig City 361.

QUIROGA-RIVERA, BENJAMIN ALBERT British

MANAGING DIRECTOR

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ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS NO.

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

NO.

399.

PEI, XUEXIAN Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

400.

QIN, CHANGCHANG Chinese

401.

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

NO.

460.

ZHANG, ZELIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

500.

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

461.

WANG, SHIQIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

WANG, BO Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

462.

GAO, QIANGDA Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

402.

ZHANG, HANG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

463.

LEI, ZHENGHUI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

501.

CHEN, JIE Chinese

403.

ZHOU, YANQIN Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

464.

LIANG, KEKE Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

502.

404.

LIN, XUWEI Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

465.

LIN, HUANYU Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

405.

GU, QIANQIAN Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

BILLION DRAGON OUTSOURCE PHILS., INC. 3/f Ayala Mall Southpark National Road Alabang Muntinlupa City

BO TONG TECHNOLOGIES INC. 2nd And 3rd Floor Shaw Plaza, 561 Shaw Blvd. Brgy. Wack Wack Mandaluyong City 466.

LI, ZHIPAN Chinese

Monday, November 30, 2020 A11

MANDARIN TECHNICAL SPECIALIST

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

560.

YUAN, YONGKAI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

561.

YUE, ZHIPENG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

562.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

ZENG, LEI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

563.

CHEN, RONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

ZHANG, MOUAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

564.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

503.

GAO, FEI Chinese

ZHANG, XUAN Chinese

565.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

504.

GONG, HONG Chinese

ZHANG, MENGHUA Chinese

566.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

505.

HAN, XIAOLIANG Chinese

GAO, CHAO Chinese

567.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

506.

HE, GUANGYU Chinese

HUANG, KEXIONG Chinese

568.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

507.

HU, QI Chinese

JIN, KAI Chinese

569.

LAN, LIJIAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

KOTIA, PRAVIN NEMICHAND Indian

POSITION

NO.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SERVICE DELIVERY

COSMOLINK GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INC. Flr. No. 6th, 7th & 8th Bldg. No. 100 Necc Bldg., Andrews Ave. St. Newport City Subd. District 1, Barangay 183 Pasay City

406.

CHEN, CHANGHUANG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

407.

CHEN, YANNA Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

408.

CHENG, LONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

467.

CHANHOM, APICHAYA Thai

ASSOCIATE

508.

JI, YONGWEI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

570.

LI, ZHONGHAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

468.

CHOI, BOYEON South Korean

ASSOCIATE

509.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

409.

JIANG, KELIANG Chinese

LI, ZHENZHEN Chinese

571.

LU, JIANDONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

469.

FANG, BINBIN Chinese

ASSOCIATE

510.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

410.

LI, DAHAI Chinese

LI, QIONG Chinese

572.

SHEN, YANLONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

470.

JANTA, DUANGKAMON Thai

ASSOCIATE

511.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

411.

LI, JIN Chinese

LI, XIAOZHEN Chinese

573.

WANG, CHANGLONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

471.

KRAISAWAD, KANTIKA Thai

ASSOCIATE

512.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

412.

LIU, XIA Chinese

LUO, HANGYU Chinese

574.

WU, ZHIHONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

472.

PARK, JIHOON South Korean

ASSOCIATE

513.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

413.

LOI CHEE EN Malaysian

PENG, YU Chinese

414.

YANG, PEICHAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

473.

SAE-HENG, SIRORAT Thai

ASSOCIATE

514.

LU, LONGWEI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

415.

BAI, DEYI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

474.

TAECHAKAN, ANUSARA Thai

ASSOCIATE

515.

PU, CHUN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

575.

TANG, XUEJIA Chinese

MANDARIN PROJECT PRODUCTION MANAGER

416.

CAI, YUETENG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

516.

QIU, YONGCHUAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

576.

ZENG, HAILONG Chinese

MANDARIN SPEAKINGOPERATIONS MANAGER

417.

CHEN, YU Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

BRIGHTLEISURE MANAGEMENT INC. 10/f Newport Entertainment & C Newport City Manlunas Brgy. 183 Pasay City

517.

TANG, GUOHONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

418.

CHEN, XUANHAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

518.

WANG, HANHAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CHEN, RUI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

BROWN & BURK PHILIPPINES, INC. U-501 5/f Seddco I Bldg. Rada Cor. Legaspi Sts. San Lorenzo Makati City

519.

WANG, JIQIU Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

420.

CHOONG WAI LOON Malaysian

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

476.

520.

WANG, JUNQI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

C’EST LA VIE EVENT MANAGEMENT INC. 230 Narra Street Marikina Heights Marikina City

521.

YUE, LING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

578.

421.

CUI, YONGHUI Chinese

GHARIB, HICHAM French

FRENCH CUSTOMER CARE SPECIALIST

FAN, JIA Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

522.

ZENG, BO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

579.

422.

ADVILLE, JASON KEVIN French

FRENCH CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

423.

GAO, JIANJIA Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

523.

ZHANG, SHISHENG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

580.

GONZALEZ PEREZ, ELIS MOISES ALEJANDRO Venezuelan

SPANISH CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

424.

HAN, BAOSHAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

524.

ZHANG, YOUDA Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

581.

LOPEZ PALACIO, RUBEN Spanish

SPANISH CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

425.

HUANG, XIAOZHONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

426.

HUANG, YONGHONG Chinese

427.

419.

BOSCH SERVICE SOLUTIONS, INC. 23rd Floor, W Fifth Avenue Building 32nd Street Corner 5th Avenue Bonifacio Global City Taguig City

475.

SUFOT AH NOM a.k.a.

SUFOT A/L AH NOM Malaysian

JAYARAMAN, RAJARAM Indian

SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR VIP SERVICES

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER/ TREASURER

CSCEC STRAIT CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD (PHILIPPINES BRANCH OFFICE) Units A&b 20/f Rufino Pacific Tower 6784 Ayala Ave. Cor. V.a. Rufino St. San Lorenzo Makati City

CSSCORP ICT SERVICES, INC. 3rd Flr. Bonifacio Technology Center 31st. Corner 2nd Avenue Crescent Park Bonifacio City Fort Bonifacio Taguig City 577.

MAGO, KAPIL Indian

SENIOR DIRECTOR OPERATIONS

CXLOYALTY PHILIPPINES, INC. 10f W Fifth Building 32nd St. Cor. 5th Avenue Bonifacio Global City, Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

477.

YANG, LINGYU Chinese

CHINESE-BOOTH FABRICATION SPECIALIST CONSULTANT

478.

WANG, ANCHANG Chinese

CHINESE-FIELD SALES CONSULTANT

479.

PI, LIXIN Chinese

CHINESE-GENERAL TRADE MARKETING SPECIALIST CONSULTANT

525.

ZOU, FENGGUANG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

DA SUCCESS BUSINESS TRADING INCORPORATED Unit 25d 2/f Zeta Ii Bldg. 191 Salcedo St. San Lorenzo Makati City

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

480.

ZHU, SHINING Chinese

CHINESE-KEY ACCOUNTS SPECIALIST CONSULTANT

526.

WANG, PENGXIANG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

582.

LIM JIUN JIAN Malaysian

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS ANALYST

HUANG, NANA Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

481.

WANG, TAO Chinese

527.

WU, DONGJIAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

583.

XIAO, ZHENHUA Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS ANALYST

428.

JIANG, BIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

CUSTOMER SUPPORT TRAINOR-MANDARIN SPEAKING

528.

XIANG, YIYI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

584.

YANG, XUE Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS ANALYST

429.

LI, LE Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

529.

XIAO, TIANYU Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

DAXIFA CORPORATION Mpire Center 93 West Avenue Project 7 Bungad 1 Quezon City

430.

LI, JIAMING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

530.

XU, ZHIYU Chinese

585.

LI, GUANTING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

531.

XU, YIHUI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

LIEW JOON SIN Malaysian

MANDARIN SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

431.

CANTIER SYSTEMS, INC. 4/f Nol Tower Commerce Ave., Madrigal Business Park Alabang Muntinlupa City

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

LI, NAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

483.

532.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

586.

432.

XU, LIULIAN Chinese

MICHELLE LIM BEE CHENG Malaysian

MANDARIN SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

433.

LIU, WENCHENG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

533.

XU, JIANKAI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

587.

SHE, ZHENQIANG Chinese

434.

LIU, QING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

534.

YAN, JIUJIA Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MANDARIN SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

LIU, WANQUN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

484.

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

535.

CHEN, QING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

WEI, HUIXUE Chinese

435.

TANKOUA TOMI, LIONEL Cameroonian

588.

MANDARIN SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

485.

MISHRA, RISHABH Indian

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT

536.

CHEN, YOUQIANG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

589.

ZHONG, CHAO Chinese

MANDARIN SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

537.

DING, DONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

538.

FENG, SHICAI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

DIAGEO ASIA PACIFIC SHARED SERVICES CENTRE LIMITED, INC. Lower Ground Floor, Unit A, Eight West Campus Le Grand Avenue, Mckinley West Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

539.

FENG, SHUAI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

540.

LI, MIAOYUAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

541.

LI, HANG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

591.

LI, BINGHUI Chinese

CUSTOMER SUPPORT SPECIALIST

542.

LIN, YANLING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

592.

LING, HAO Chinese

MARKETING EXECUTIVE

543.

LUO, PENG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

593.

PAN, ZIJIN Chinese

MARKETING MANAGER

544.

LUO, WENJIE Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

545.

LUO, ZHENGWEN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

594.

EASTERN GOLD CORPORATION 503 Nueva St Binondo Manila

C3/CUSTOMERCONTACTCHANNELS PHILIPPINES LTD. 11/f, 17/f, 18/f, 19/f, 20/f Bonifacio One Technology Tower 3030 Rizal Drive Cor. 31st St. Bgc Fort Bonifacio Taguig City 482.

MEHTA, GAGAN Indian

DHANDAPANI, KARTHIKEYAN Indian

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTOPERATIONS

SENIOR SOFTWARE PROGRAMMER

CAPGEMINI PHILIPPINES CORP. 12f, Ten West Campus Bldg. Le Grand Avenue, Mckinley West Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

436.

LIU, JIE Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

437.

LIU, CHANGMEI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

CAPSLOCK INC. 7th & 8th Flr. Y Tower Bldg. Coral Way Drive Cor. Macapagal Brgy.

076 Pasay City

438.

LU, FAHONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

486.

DONG, LUN Chinese

CHINESE I.T SUPPORT SPECIALIST

LUO, BIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

487.

GENG, DONGDONG Chinese

CHINESE I.T SUPPORT SPECIALIST

440.

NING, HUI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

488.

MAO, CUIHONG Chinese

CHINESE I.T SUPPORT SPECIALIST

441.

PANG, CHAOMING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

489.

XU, XI Chinese

CHINESE I.T SUPPORT SPECIALIST

442.

SHI, ZEDONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

490.

ZHAO, LINGJIE Chinese

CHINESE I.T SUPPORT SPECIALIST

443.

SONG, DIEDIE Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

NG KAH WAI Malaysian

I.T SUPPORT SPECIALIST

444.

SONG, CHUAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

445.

SUN, SHENGLI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

446.

TANG, XIANGHUI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

447.

WANG, YANZHENG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

448.

WANG, ZHEN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

449.

WU, DAICHUN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

494.

TANG, JIN Chinese

450.

WU, YONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

495.

PENG, JIN Chinese

451.

WU, YUANDA Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

CHITTICK FIRE & SECURITY CORPORATION 10/f Telecom Plaza 316 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Ave. Bel-air Makati City

452.

XIA, LINFENG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

496.

453.

XIANG, JINWEN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

454.

XIAO, TAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

455.

XIE, MEILING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

456.

XIE, LEI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

457.

YEH, CHING-YU Taiwanese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

458.

YI, XIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

459.

YU, CHUNHUI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

439.

491.

CHINA COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES PHILIPPINES CORPORATION 12/f One/neo Bldg 26th St. Cor 3rd Ave., Bgc Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

590.

KANTOR, ZOLTAN LAJOS Hungarian

BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT LEAD

DIGISPARK TECH CORP. Unit 1618 High Street, South Corporate Plaza, Tower 2 26th St. Corner 9th Ave. Bgc Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

DYNA BINARY HOLDINGS INC. 18/f Tower 2 The Enterprise Center, 6766 Ayala Ave., Cor. Paseo De Roxas San Lorenzo Makati City ERIC ARON Indonesian

CHINESE SPEAKING ADMIN ASSOCIATE

492.

TAN, BOHUA Chinese

5G TECHNICAL CONSULTANT (MANDARIN)

546.

6G TECHNICAL CONSULTANT (MANDARIN)

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

493.

LIANG, PENGCHENG Chinese

NIE, CHANGCHUN Chinese

547.

SHEN, HUI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

595.

CHEN, GAOQIU Chinese

548.

TIAN, WEN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MARKETING AND SALES AGENT

596.

HONG, CHAOMING Chinese

MANDARIN GENERAL PROJECT MANAGER

549.

WANG, HAIJIAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MARKETING AND SALES AGENT

597.

TANG, DI Chinese

BUSINESS CONSULTANT

550.

WANG, ZINING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MARKETING AND SALES AGENT

598.

WEI, KAI Chinese

551.

WEI, WENWEI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MARKETING AND SALES AGENT

599.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MARKETING AND SALES AGENT

552.

WENG, MEIQIN Chinese

ZHANG, SHAOQIU Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

600.

553.

WOO TOH BOON Malaysian

CHEN, QIMING Chinese

MARKETING AND SALES AGENT

554.

WU, GUO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

601.

HE, ZHENGJING Chinese

MARKETING AND SALES AGENT

555.

XIA, JIYUAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

EASY TALK LANGUAGE LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION, INC. G/f Mezz, 2/f, 3/f & Penthouse 95 Sen Gil Puyat Ave. Palanan Makati City

556.

XU, PING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

602.

CHINA HARBOUR ENGINEERING COMPANY 5/f Rm 501 Ramon Magsaysay Center 1680 Roxas Blvd. 076, Bgy. 699 Malate Manila

HYER, RONALD EDWARD American

CONSULTANT

CMC DI RAVENNA - FILIPPINE BRANCH (PHILIPPINE BRANCH) Unit 1603 16th Floor One Park Drive 11th Drive Corner 9th Avenue Bonifacio Global City Fort Bonifacio Taguig City 497.

FABRICI, MICHELE Italian

TBM CHIEF MECHANIC

COCA-COLA BEVERAGES PHILIPPINES, INC. 27/f Six / Neo Bldg. 5th Ave. Cor. 26th St. Fort Bonifacio Taguig City 498.

OKAZAWA, MITSUTOSHI Japanese

ENGINEERING SENIOR MANAGER

557.

YANG, HAO Chinese

499.

NISHIGUCHI, YOICHI Japanese

SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING DIRECTOR

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

558.

YANG, LIHUI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

559.

YUAN, ZHONGLUN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CONCENTRIX CVG PHILIPPINES, INC. 25/f Ayala North Exchange Tower 2, 6796 Ayala Ave. Cor. Salcedo & Amorsolo Streets Makati City

CAI, BINGYU Chinese

BILINGUAL SPEAKING TEACHER

EASTVANTAGE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. 11/f Fort Legend Tower 3rd Ave. Cor. 31st St., Bonifacio Global City Fort Bonifacio Taguig City 603.

THEKUTAIL RAMACHANDRAN, RAKESH Indian

QA CO-ORDINATOR

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FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS POSITION

ESTERLY SERVICE, INC. Unit 2902b Pbcom Tower Ayala Ave. V.a. Rufino St. Bel-air Makati City

NO.

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS POSITION

NO.

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

767.

WANG, YIJIE Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

659.

CHEN, JINXING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

717.

LIANG, SHUCONG Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

768.

ZHOU, BO Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

660.

CHEN, FAN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

718.

SONG, MENG Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

769.

661.

CHEN, YUZHENG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

719.

WEI, CHANGWANG Chinese

CHEN, HUAFU Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

662.

DENG, ANQI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

720.

WU, CHUANWEI Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

770.

DENG, XIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

663.

DIAO, MENGQIANG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

721.

XIAO, JINGBAO Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

771.

DING, YANLONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

664.

DING, YADONG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

722.

ZHAO, ZHONGYUAN Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

772.

665.

FENG, HATE Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

666.

FENG, GUOJI Chinese

AN, LONGLONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

723.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

HOU, CHUNWEI Chinese

773.

CAI, BIAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

LI, JUNJIE Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

774.

DENG, CHANG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

LIU, ZIHANG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

775.

FU, LAIYUAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

LIU, AO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

776.

GAO, SHEN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

MA, XIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

777.

GUO, QINGXIA Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

SAM NAM TAC Vietnamese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

778.

HOU, YISHENG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

SONG, YANXIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

779.

HUANG, FENGHUA Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

TAN, ZHENNAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

780.

LEI, XUE Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

WANG, LING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

781.

LI, MING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

WANG, BOYUN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

782.

LI, ZIBIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

WANG, XUEFEI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

783.

LIANG, BAOLONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

WANG, TAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

784.

LIAO, ZHONGJIE Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

WANG, HAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

785.

LIU, TAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

WANG, DONGYAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

786.

NIU, LIDONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

WU, TIANHAI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

787.

QIU, SHI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

YANG, ZHIWEN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

788.

SHI, SHUAI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

YANG, CHUNYAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

789.

SUN, KELONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

ZHAN, LIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

790.

WANG, BO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

ZHANG, FA Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

791.

WEI, GUO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

ZHAO, YONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

792.

WILSON CHEN JIA JI Malaysian

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

ZHOU, JIAJING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

793.

XIAN, TIANZHEN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

744.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

ZHOU, GUOHUI Chinese

794.

ARR YEIN Myanmari

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

745.

XIANG, PING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

795.

CHENG, QING Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

746.

YANG, YI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

796.

HE, YIXIAN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

797.

YANG, XING Chinese

HOU, XIN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

747.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

798.

JIANG, JINGYI Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

748.

YANG, CHANGJUN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

799.

LI, XUDONG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

800.

749.

YU, GANGAN Chinese

SU, XINDING Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

801.

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

750.

YUAN, KAIDI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

WEN, ZHENHUA Chinese

802.

ZHANG, XIAOJUN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

751.

ZHANG, YAKUN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

803.

ZHANG, GUICHENG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

ZHANG, XIAO Chinese

804.

752.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

ZU, YAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

753.

CHEN, JUNHUANG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

805.

BAI, ANGDONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

754.

CHEN, JIA Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

806.

CAO, ZISHENG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

807.

DAI, QUAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

808.

JIANG, MAOSEN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

809.

LI, DAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

810.

LIANG, WEIJIE Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

811.

LIN, HAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

812.

LIU, XUAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

813.

LIU, MEILING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

814.

LU, YU Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

MANDARIN SPEAKING FINANCE TEAM LEADER

606.

WEI, JUANJUAN Chinese

MANDARIN SPEAKING FINANCE TEAM LEADER

607.

CHEN, FAN-KAI Taiwanese

MANDARIN SPEAKING SPECIALIST

608.

HSIEH, CHEN-HSUAN Taiwanese

MANDARIN SPEAKING SPECIALIST

609.

HUANG, HSIANG-WEI a.k.a. HUANG, HUI-CHI Taiwanese

MANDARIN SPEAKING SPECIALIST

610.

WEI, LI-WEN Taiwanese

MANDARIN SPEAKING SPECIALIST

611.

ZHANG, BOWEN Chinese

MANDARIN SPEAKING SPECIALIST

667.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

612.

LO, YA-JU Taiwanese

FINANCE ASSISTANT MANAGER

LAO, WEI Chinese

668.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

613.

YANG, SHENGZHI Chinese

MANDARIN SPEAKING FINANCE TEAM LEADER

LI, MENGCHENG Chinese

669.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

CHEN, LI-HUNG Taiwanese

MANDARIN SPEAKING SPECIALIST

LIN, SIYU Chinese

670.

LIU, SHUN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

671.

LUO, XUAN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

672.

MA, TAO Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

615.

CHANG, WENGANG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

616.

HUANG, XUELAI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

673.

617.

KAN, XINGYONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

MU, FANG Chinese

674.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

618.

LI, JIAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

QIN, TIANPENG Chinese

675.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

619.

LING, YUYUN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

SUN, YABO Chinese

676.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

620.

LIU, ZHIMING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

TIAN, LIANBIN Chinese

677.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

621.

LONG, ZHAOHONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

WANG, BAOCHENG Chinese

678.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

622.

TU, WENLONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

WANG, YINGZUN Chinese

679.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

623.

WANG, SHUAI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

WEN, HONGJIN Chinese

680.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

624.

WEI, YONGJIE Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

WU, YITING Chinese

681.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

625.

WU, QIAOZHU Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

XIE, YINGDONG Chinese

682.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

626.

YANG, JUN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

YANG, HUI Chinese

683.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

627.

YANG, HAIBIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

ZHANG, TIANQI Chinese

684.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

628.

YANG, ZHIGUO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

ZHANG, YUSHENG Chinese

685.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

629.

YU, ZHUBING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

ZHANG, YUNHAI Chinese

686.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

630.

ZHANG, XIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

ZHAO, CHUQING Chinese

687.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

631.

ZHOU, MENGYAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

ZHU, XIAOLI Chinese

688.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

632.

LI, DEYONG Chinese

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT)

CHEN, WEIYU Chinese

689.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

633.

YAN, YONGZHI Chinese

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT)

HUANG, ZHIXIN Chinese

690.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

634.

CHEN, CONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

LIU, XINLING Chinese

691.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

635.

DING, JIE Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

LIU, SHENGBING Chinese

692.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

636.

HUANG, YIZHONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

LIU, BINGFA Chinese

693.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

637.

LI, ZHILONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

PAN, WENBIN Chinese

694.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

638.

TANG, GANGMEI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

SUN, JINJUN Chinese

695.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

639.

FU, YING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

WEI, FUZHU Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

640.

HUANG, LIANGYI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

WEI, SHUANGHUA Chinese

641.

MA, LIANG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

642.

WEI, WANRANG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE (CSR)

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

FINASTRA PHILIPPINES, INC. 8f Zuellig Building Makati Avenue, Corner Paseo De Roxas Makati City 644.

DEVASIA, JINO JOHN Indian

EXPERT SOFTWARE ENGINEER

FIRST GREAT COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES INC. Lot 5 Sta. Agueda Cor. Queensway Pagcor Drive Sto. Niño Parañaque City 645.

GUO, ZHONGXIN Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

696.

697.

XIE, GUOLIN Chinese

698.

XU, NENGSAI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

699.

ZHANG, YUNDONG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

700.

ZHOU, ZHENYU Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

701.

ZHU, CHENGCHONG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

FRK BUILDERS AND TRADERS INC. Units 20 A & B, 20/f Rufino Pacific Tower 6784 Ayala Ave. San Lorenzo Makati City 702.

JIANG, TAO Chinese

CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL AND COST CONTROL SPECIALIST

703.

LI, SHIWU Chinese

STRUCTURAL MAINTENANCE SPECIALIST

WAN, YAJIE Chinese

ELECTRICAL AND CONTROL MAINTENANCE SYSTEM ANALYST

704.

724.

725.

726.

727.

728.

729.

730.

731.

732.

733.

734.

735.

736.

737.

738.

739.

740.

741.

742.

743.

646.

HA VAN NHU Vietnamese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

GATEWAYSOLUTIONS CORP. 8/f Edsa Cor. Sultan Brgy. Highway Hills Mandaluyong City

647.

SONG, XIAOXU Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

705.

DU, ZHONGJIANG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

755.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

FANG, SHAOLONG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

756.

GE, LULU Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

648.

CHEN, JIAWEI Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

706.

MIN PAING PHYO Myanmari

649.

LIANG, DONG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

707.

PI, CHAOQUN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

757.

HUANG, CAIYUE Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

708.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

650.

WANG, MINGHUAI Chinese

HONG, JIANG Chinese

758.

GLOBALLGA BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING Ground Level, Level 2-5 Floor Silver City 4, Ortigas East Ugong Pasig City

HONG, LIANGXING Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

759.

HUANG, HUAJUN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

760.

HUANG, XIAOXI Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

761.

HUANG, YUMIN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

762.

KE, JINHUAI Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

763.

LI, TONG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

764.

LIN, CHUNLIN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

765.

MENG, CHUNTAO Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

766.

WANG, ALAN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

651.

ZHENG, CHENG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

652.

TAR PHU Myanmari

COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST

653.

MU, DONGDONG Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

654.

NAN, ZEKAI Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

FLYING DRAGON NETWORK PHILIPPINES INC. Malate Bayview Mansion 1781 M. Adriatico Street 076, Brgy. 699 Malate Manila

709.

CAO, BOQI Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

710.

HE, JIANWEN Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

711.

KONG, GAOFENG Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

712.

LAN, YALI Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

655.

LI, MINGHUI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

713.

LAN, XUE Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

656.

OOI HUI ZHEN Malaysian

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

714.

LAN, YASHENG Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

657.

WAN, MIAN Chinese

715.

LAN, HUIYING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

POSITION

LEI, XIANGCHENG Chinese

CHEN, CHU-YAO Taiwanese

KARLSSON, PETTER MAGNUS Swedish

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

716.

605.

643.

NO.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

MANDARIN SPEAKING CLIENT COORDINATOR

FCI SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES INC. Unit 2202 Richville Corporate Tower Alabang Zapote Road Madrigal Business Park Alabang Muntinlupa City

POSITION

YANG, YU Chinese

WANG, BAISONG Chinese

FAREAST OUTSOURCE PROCESSING INC. 7th, 8th, 9th Flr. Nu Tower Moa Coral Way Brgy. 076 Pasay City

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

658.

604.

614.

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CHINESE IT SUPPORT

BusinessMirror

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ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS NO.

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS POSITION

815.

LUO, FA Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

816.

LUO, KUNYI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

817.

PAN, YU Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

SUN, YUE Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

WANG, PENGYUN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

WU, BO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

XI, MENG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

822.

YUAN, JIASONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

823.

ZHANG, BO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

824.

ZHAO, YONGHUI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

825.

ZHOU, GUANGMING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

ZHOU, HONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

ZHU, NING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

ZOU, CHUNBING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

ZOU, MINGFENG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

818.

819.

820.

821.

826.

827.

828.

829.

NO.

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS POSITION

NO.

866.

LIN, DONGXIONG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

921.

LING, LUONIAN Chinese

PROJECT CONSULTANT

867.

LIU, XIQIANG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

922.

868.

LUO, WANGSHENG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

WANG, LICHUN Chinese

QUALITY ASSURANCE(QA)/ QUALITY CONTROL(QC) ADVISER

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

923.

869.

PENG, SHIXIANG Chinese

XIONG, XIAOPING Chinese

ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

924.

870.

PENG, CONG Chinese

CHEN, GUICAI Chinese

CHINESE EQUIPMENT SUPERVISOR

871.

SHI, WEIBAO Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

925.

WANG, ZHENHUA Chinese

ELECTRICAL AND INSTRUMENTATION CONSULTANT

872.

TENG, JIA Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

926.

HU, JINGXIA Chinese

LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR

873.

WAN, RAN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

927.

ZHANG, HONGGEN Chinese

LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR

874.

WANG, RONGQUAN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

928.

LI, XUEBING Chinese

PROJECT CONSULTANT

875.

WANG, MENGTING Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

929.

HUANG, YUANMAN Chinese

QUALITY ASSURANCE(QA)/ QUALITY CONTROL(QC) ADVISER

876.

WANG, LUYI Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

XU, HAIRONG Chinese

STEEL STRUCTURAL SUPERVISOR

877.

WANG, BIN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

878.

WANG, SHIBO Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

879.

WU, CHUFENG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

880.

WU, YUJIA Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

881.

XIE, GANG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

932.

882.

YUAN, TAO Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

883.

ZENG, LIHAO Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES PHILS. INC. U-5302, 53/f Pbcom Tower 6795 Ayala Ave., Cor., V.a. Rufino St. Bel-air Makati City 933.

884.

ZHANG, JING Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

WU, JIANXUN Chinese

934.

885.

ZHANG, LEI Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

LI, DING Chinese

886.

ZHANG, BINGBING Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

887.

ZHANG, YU Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

888.

ZHANG, QIN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

936.

FINANCE OFFICER

889.

ZHENG, HANTAO Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

TAO, LONGYU Chinese

937.

SENIOR IT MANAGER

890.

ZHOU, XIONG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

WONG MIIN YEH Malaysian

891.

ZHU, ZHENXIN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

892.

LIN, YAZHI Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

893.

LYU, HAITAO Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

894.

QIAN, YAXIN Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

895.

QIU, LUGUI Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

INFORM SOFTWARE PTY. LTD. Unit 1601, 1801-06 Orient Square Bldg. F. Ortigas Jr. Road, Ortigas Center San Antonio Pasig City

896.

WANG, XIAOYAN Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

941.

897.

WEI, SHIFU Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

898.

ZHAO, SHUO Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

INFOSYS LIMITED PHILIPPINE BRANCH 6/f Cyber One Bldg. Eastwood Cyberpark City Bagumbayan 3 Quezon City

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

ZOU, YOUYUAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

831.

ZOU, JIANDONG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

832.

CHEN, SHIYING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

833.

FANG, WEIXIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

834.

HE, YUXI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

835.

JIANG, PAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

836.

JIANG, EN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

837.

LUO, XIAOMIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

MENG, QINGSHUAI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

PAN, QIREN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

899.

ZHU, XINGGUO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

900.

XIAN, JIANFENG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

841.

ZHANG, XIAOLI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

901.

XU, CHANGYING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

842.

DENG, YIFAN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

902.

SHU, YING Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

843.

DUAN, DONGLIN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

903.

CHEN, CAIYU Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

844.

LI, XIAOHUI Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

904.

FENG, BO Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

845.

LIANG, BIAO Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

905.

HUANG, YONGJUN Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

846.

LIANG, CHAOJIE Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

906.

LIANG, LUN Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

847.

LYU, HUAXIONG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

907.

YANG, QIULU Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

848.

MYO WIN HLAING Myanmari

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

908.

ZHANG, SHUIYING Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

WANG, BULIANG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

909.

ZHENG, LULU Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

850.

WU, JINYAN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

910.

ZHENG, ZHIXIAN Chinese

851.

ZHONG, WEI Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

911.

852.

SHAO, SHUANG Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

853.

CHEN, QIANG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

854.

CHEN, XIN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

855.

FENG, LIAN Chinese

856.

839.

840.

QIAO, ZHIFENG Chinese

930.

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

830.

838.

Monday, November 30, 2020 A13

POSITION

BRODAN, DANIEL Czech

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

964.

LIM YEN SAM Malaysian

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

965.

WANG, PING Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

966.

KOK YEW SHEN Malaysian

CHINESE SPEAKING DATA ENTRY CLERK

967.

LI, HONG Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING DATA ENTRY CLERK

968.

LI, RUN Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING DATA ENTRY CLERK

969.

LIU, XIAOCHEN Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING DATA ENTRY CLERK

970.

RAYMOND LIM KHOON TEK Malaysian

CHINESE SPEAKING DATA ENTRY CLERK

971.

WONG WING KIN Malaysian

CHINESE SPEAKING DATA ENTRY CLERK

972.

ZENG, JINFENG Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING DATA ENTRY CLERK

973.

ZHANG, YING Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING DATA ENTRY CLERK

974.

ZHONG, MINGHUA Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING DATA ENTRY CLERK

975.

HO, WEN-HSIANG Taiwanese

CHINESE SPEAKING GRAPHIC DESIGNER

DITO CORE DATA CENTER PROJECT DIRECTOR

976.

HUANG, GUO-ZHE Taiwanese

CHINESE SPEAKING GRAPHIC DESIGNER

GLOBE WIRELESS EXPANSION POWER CONSULTANT

977.

REN, JIE Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING GRAPHIC DESIGNER

978.

SONG, XIAOYU Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING GRAPHIC DESIGNER

979.

SUN, ZHAOFAN Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING GRAPHIC DESIGNER

980.

TAN, JUE Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING GRAPHIC DESIGNER

981.

YANG, JIN Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING GRAPHIC DESIGNER

982.

YANG, KAIYU Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING GRAPHIC DESIGNER

ONLINE TRANSFORMATION LEADER

SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS

INDI-PHIL. MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTANCY INC. Unit 308 Mtf Bldg. Dr. A. Santos Ave. San Isidro Parañaque City 935.

CHUA, KIM SIAH Singaporean

POSITION

LEE CHAN FEI Malaysian

HINDUJA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED 6/f E-commerce Bldg. Eastwood Avenue Eastwood City Libis Quezon City GUPTA, POOJA Indian

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

963.

HC CONSUMER FINANCE PHILIPPINES, INC. 15th Floor, Ore Central 9th Ave. Cor 31st. Bonifacio Global City Fort Bonifacio Taguig City 931.

NO.

MARKETING EXECUTIVE/ INTERPRETER

INFIN8TY DRAGON MANAGEMENT INC. New Seaside Drive Extension Cbp Ii Tambo Parañaque City

INFINITY B2B MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS INC. Unit 2701 27/f Pbcom Tower 6795 Ayala Ave. Cor. V.a. Rufino Sts. Bel-air Makati City 938.

CHEN, RUI Chinese

BILINGUAL CUSTOMER SERVICE AGENT

939.

LI, ZHI Chinese

BILINGUAL CUSTOMER SERVICE AGENT

983.

CHEN, XIAOJUN Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING PROGRAM DESIGNER

940.

TANG, HAO Chinese

IT SPECIALIST MANDARIN

984.

DONG, ZIFU Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING PROGRAM DESIGNER

985.

JIA, YUNFEI Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING PROGRAM DESIGNER

986.

LI, XUAN Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING PROGRAM DESIGNER

987.

LIM KAH WAI Malaysian

CHINESE SPEAKING PROGRAM DESIGNER

988.

LIU, XIAOYUN Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING PROGRAM DESIGNER

989.

LUO, LIN Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING PROGRAM DESIGNER

990.

PENG, YANGFAN Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING PROGRAM DESIGNER

TRAN DANG THUONG Vietnamese

TELEMARKETER

942.

VURIMI, VENKATA JAYA SARAN KUMAR Indian

SENIOR CONSULTANT - INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

943.

KORAPU, KRANTHI KUMAR Indian

SPECIALIST - IT RESOURCES

INFOVINE INC. 9/f Y Tower, Moa Complex Coral Way Drive Cor. Macapagal Brgy.

076 Pasay City 944.

JIANG, ZONGXIAN Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

991.

WANG, YU-HUNG Taiwanese

CHINESE SPEAKING PROGRAM DESIGNER

945.

CHEN, ZHONGQIN Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING DATA ENTRY CLERK

992.

WU, FEI Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING PROGRAM DESIGNER

946.

STANLEY YEO MAI FOU Malaysian

CHINESE SPEAKING GRAPHIC DESIGNER

INTERCOMP LINK SOLUTIONS INC. 14th Floor, Filinvest Three Bldg. Northgate Cyberzone Filinvest Alabang Muntinlupa City

947.

WANG, HONGBIN Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

993.

SUN, XIAOXI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

948.

DONG, JING Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

994.

ZENG, QIAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

949.

WANG, CHENGLONG Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

995.

ALEX YONG TZE FAH Malaysian

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CHINESE IT SUPPORT

950.

ZHENG, LIANZHAO Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

996.

GAO, WEIMIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

CAI, LINGLING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

951.

APRIANTO TJOA Indonesian

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

997.

HE, XIAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

912.

HO DAC TRI Vietnamese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

952.

CHAN CHIN YEE Malaysian

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

998.

JI, XIUQING Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

913.

LIAN, LIBAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

953.

HA BA QUAN Vietnamese

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

999.

JI, XIUJUAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

914.

YI, XIN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKING

954.

KUANG, XUJIA Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

1000.

LI, XIAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

GONG, DU Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

955.

LI, GUAN-TING Taiwanese

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

1001.

LIU, BAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

857.

HE, LANG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

GLOBE FINTECH INNOVATIONS, INC. 32/f The Trade & Financial Tower 32nd St. Cor. 7th Ave., Bgc Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

956.

LIU, CANHUI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

858.

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

1002.

HUANG, SHENGHONG Chinese

LIU, HAIBO Chinese

859.

HUANG, RIXIONG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

957.

LU, CHANGJIE Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

1003.

LYU, SHENGHAO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

860.

LAI, AQIANG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

958.

RIZAL EFFENDI Indonesian

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

1004.

MA, TUO Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

861.

LI, QINGCHUAN Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

959.

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

1005.

862.

LI, JIALONG Chinese

WANG, YONGBO Chinese

PIAO, YONGFENG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

960.

863.

LI, PENG Chinese

YANG, TAO Chinese

CHINESE SPEAKING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

1006.

SUN, YAN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

864.

LIANG, MEIXING Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

961.

CHUANG, CHUN-SHENG Taiwanese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1007.

XIAO, WEI Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

LIANG, YUANCHENG Chinese

MARKETING STAFF MANDARIN SPEAKING

962.

CIOU, YUE-LING Taiwanese

CHINESE SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1008.

XU, QISEN Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

849.

865.

915.

YAP WEI LIAM Malaysian

CONSULTANT

GOLD STANDARD SOLUTION SERVICES INC. U-1802 18/f The Peak Tower 107 L.p Leviste St. Bel-air Makati City 916.

FAGGIANO, FEDERICA Italian

ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT HEAD

HANBEE KITCHEN SYSTEMS, INC. 30-40 Lubiran Street Bacood Sta. Mesa 062, Brgy. 619 Sampaloc Manila 917.

KIM (SPOUSE OF CHO), HYE KYUNG South Korean

TREASURER/OPERATIONS MANAGER

918.

LIU, RENBING Chinese

CHINESE EQUIPMENT SUPERVISOR

919.

PHYU PHYU WIN Myanmari

LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR

920.

FANG, SHAOQIU Chinese

PROJECT CONSULTANT

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1009.

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

NO.

YI, XIAOFENG Chinese

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1045.

INQUICK SERVICES INC. Unit 606 6/f Itc Bldg. 337 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. Bel-air Makati City 1010.

1011.

LUAN, YU Chinese

MANDARIN SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

WANG, MINGFANG Chinese

MANDARIN SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

INTEGREON MANAGED SOLUTIONS (PHILIPPINES), INC. 9/f 6750 Bldg. 6750 Ayala Avenue San Lorenzo Makati City 1012.

CHAI CHUN KHIONG Malaysian

MANDARIN CONTRACT SPECIALIST

ITECHNO SPECIALIST INC. 9/f 100 West Building Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. Pio Del Pilar Makati City 1013.

HUANG, HUANZI Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

1014.

JIANG, LINFANG Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

1015.

LIAO, SHUAI Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

1016.

LIU, YUTING Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

1017.

LONG, DONG Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

1018.

ZHANG, BAIXIAN Chinese

CHINESE IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

NO.

YANG, HEUN South Korean

CUSTOMER SERVICES CONSULTANT

1092.

MAJOREL PHILIPPINES CORP. 5th Floor E-commerce Plaza Bldg. 1 Garden Rd., Eastwood City Bagumbayan Quezon City 1046.

HWANG, BOHWA South Korean

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1047.

JUNG, JAEKI South Korean

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1048.

KIM, TAEHYEONG South Korean

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1049.

AHMED, RONNIE ISHTIAQ Indian

OPERATIONS MANAGER

MERCK BUSINESS SOLUTIONS ASIA INC. 36th To 39th Floor, The Finance Centre Condominium 26th Street Corner 9th Avenue Bonifacio Global City Taguig City 1050.

CHOI, WOOREE South Korean

HR SPECIALIST

MGS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Unit 602, 607, 2508 Tycoon Centre Pearl Drive Ortigas Center San Antonio Pasig City 1051.

BURTON, MICHAEL KENNETH British

www.businessmirror.com.ph

OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR

MINDSCAPE CREATIVES INC. Unit 19-o, Burgundy Corporate Tower 252 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. Pio Del Pilar Makati City

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS POSITION

NO.

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

HUANG, JINLONG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1140.

QIU, YUANQIANG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1093.

SHANGGUAN, JIANFA Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1141.

SHANG, FEI Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1094.

SUN, LIPING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1142.

SU, YINGYING Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1095.

SUN, XIANMING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1143.

WANG, QI Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1096.

WANG, YI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1144.

XIE, WEN Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1097.

WU, LIANFANG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1145.

ZHANG, KUN Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1098.

ZHANG, ZHENG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1146.

ZHAO, HUALIN Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1099.

ZHOU, WENXIONG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1147.

JIANG, WEICHENG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1100.

LU YAN PUI Malaysian

MALAYSIAN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1148.

LIU, QIANGQIANG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1101.

BAI, CHENCHEN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1149.

CHENG, YOUKANG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1102.

CAI, GUOQIANG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1150.

FENG, RUIJUN Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1103.

CHENG, RUI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1151.

GUO, GUIFEN Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1104.

JIN, SHUAI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1152.

HU, WEI Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1052.

LIN, YUANREN Chinese

MANDARIN MARKETING SPECIALIST

1105.

LIU, HUAN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1153.

HUANG, GUOBIN Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1053.

CHEN, YONGJIE Chinese

MANDARIN TECHNICAL SUPPORT

1106.

ZHONG, YIYANG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1154.

LIN, YOUCHAO Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1054.

WEN, HONGHONG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1107.

KANG, DONGLIANG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1155.

WANG, SIQI Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1055.

CHAO, YUNG-HSIEN Taiwanese

MANDARIN DATA ANALYST

1156.

XIE, SHIYUAN Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

J-NA ALLOUT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP. 3/f Lipams Bldg. #48 President Avenue Bf Homes Parañaque City

1056.

XING, MINGZE Chinese

MANDARIN PRODUCT DEVELOPER

1108.

1157.

ZHANG, ZHIYANG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

CHINESE MARKETING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

1057.

LYU, HAILONG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1058.

HE, YAXI Chinese

MANDARIN OPERATIONS SPECIALIST

NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS PHILIPPINES, INC. 18/f The Curve Bldg. 32nd St. Cor. 3rd Ave. Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

1059.

HUI, XIUWEN Chinese

MANDARIN TECHNICAL SUPPORT

1060.

KONG, BINQUAN Chinese

MANDARIN TECHNICAL SUPPORT

IQVIA SOLUTIONS OPERATIONS CENTER PHILIPPINES INC. 4th Floor, One World Square Upper Mckinley Road Fort Bonifacio Taguig City 1019.

1020.

PEÑA PAZ, CRISTOBAL MAURICIO Chilean

LAN, WEILIN Chinese

SERVICE DESK TECHN SPEC

JACOBS PROJECTS (PHILIPPINES), INC. 16/f South Tower Rockwell Business Center Sheridan Highway Hills Mandaluyong City 1021.

VINCENT, STEVEN ALEXANDER New Zealander

COUNTRY MANAGERPHILIPPINES

JINDINGYUAN BUSINESS SUPPORT, INC. Filinvest Cyberzone Bldg. B C Bay City Brgy. 076 Pasay City 1022.

KOH LOKE KOON Malaysian

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

JIU ZHOU TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. 31/f Tower 6789 6789 Ayala Avenue San Lorenzo Makati City

MITSUI & CO. (ASIA PACIFIC) PTE. LTD. MANILA BRANCH 36/f Gt Tower International 6813 Ayala Avenue Bel-air Makati City 1061.

SHIMADA, SHINICHIRO Japanese

BRANCH GENERAL MANAGER

MOBICON NETWORKS LIMITED CORP. 32/f Rufino Pacific Tower 6784 Ayala Ave. Cor. V.a., Rufino St. San Lorenzo Makati City

1023.

TIEW KOE SIN Malaysian

MALAYSIAN CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1062.

1024.

CHOKCHAIANAN, TAWIPAK Thai

THAI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

NAVARRO AMPER & CO. 19/f Six/neo Bldg. 5th Ave. Cor. 26th St. Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

1025.

PANKONG, NAPHATHIDA Thai

THAI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1063.

PHURUNGRIT, RATANA Thai

THAI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1026.

1027.

PROMPHANAT, PEERAPON Thai

THAI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1028.

WONGSASIRIROTE, NATTHAPAPHATS Thai

THAI CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1029.

NGUYEN THI MY TIEN Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1030.

TRAN DUY ANH TU Vietnamese

VIETNAMESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

KINKA GRAPHICS, INC. U-104 State Condo. V 452 Edsa Ave. Guadalupe Viejo Makati City 1031.

PARK, DONGHYUK South Korean

DIRECTOR AND GENERAL MANAGER

KENSTAND PHILIPPINES INC. Level 10-1 Fort Legend Tower 31st St. Cor. 3rd Ave. Bonifacio Global City Fort Bonifacio Taguig City 1032.

PUN, KEUNG FAI British

PROCUREMENT OFFICER

KONGANBUDDIES MARKETING INC. 48/f Lower Ground Pbcom Tower 6795 Ayala Ave. Cor. V.a. Rufino St. Bel-air Makati City BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST(BI LINGUAL IN MANDARIN)

1033.

WANG, KAISI Chinese

1034.

BERNARD PARLINDUNGAN SAGALA Indonesian

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST (BI LINGUAL IN MANDARIN)

1035.

HE, HAITAO Chinese

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST(BI LINGUAL IN MANDARIN)

1036.

MU, XIAOXUE Chinese

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST(BI LINGUAL IN MANDARIN)

LAMUDI PHILIPPINES INC. 32/f Bpi-philamlife Makati Condo. 6811 Ayala Ave. Bel-air Makati City 1037.

RAHUL SUGUNAN Indian

PRODUCT MANAGER

LAWSON PHILIPPINES, INC. 11f Times Plaza Bldg. Un Ave. Cor. Taft Ave. 072 Bgy. 666 Ermita Manila 1038.

1039.

HIRATA, TSUYOSHI Japanese

CONSULTANT

KINOUCHI, YOSUKE Japanese

CONSULTANT

LOVE TRAVEL AGENCY, INC. 2f-9 Gateway Bldg. Cartimar, Taft Ave. Brgy. 039 Pasay City 1040.

CHEN, XIAOXIN Chinese

ADMIN ASSISTANTMANDARIN SPEAKING

LUCKY365 CONSULTING LIMITED CORP. U/18a 18/f 18/f Trafalgar Plaza 105 H.v. Dela Costa St. Bel-air Makati City 1041.

YAN, XIAOQIN Chinese

CLIENT SUPPORT SUPERVISOR (MANDARIN SPEAKING)

1042.

CHAO, ABBIE YENPING a.k.a. CHAO, YEN-PING Taiwanese

CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS EXECUTIVE (MANDARIN SPEAKING)

1043.

ANNA KENANGA Indonesian

FUND MANAGER (MANDARIN SPEAKING)

1044.

ZHENG, YAOLONG Chinese

QUALITY ASSURANCE TRAINOR (MANDARIN SPEAKING)

LUFTHANSA SERVICES PHILIPPINES, INC. 8th Floor Aeon Center Northgate Cyberzone Alabang Muntinlupa City

BAIDYA, RABINA Nepalese

ORPA, FARAH IRTIFA Bangladeshi

PROJECT MANAGER

JUNIOR ASSOCIATE SPECIALIST

NETSURF MEDIA, INC. U-708 Eastfield Center Cbp 1 Brgy. 076 Pasay City 1064.

1065.

EVA NATALIA SITUMORANG Indonesian

INDONESIAN CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGER

ESTER KRISTIN LUMBAN GAOL Indonesian

INDONESIAN TELESALES

NEPC POWER CONSTRUCTION CORP. 15/f Cyber One Bldg. Eastwood Cyberpark City Bagumbayan 3 Quezon City 1066.

1067.

LI, BAOHONG Chinese

ELECTRICAL AND CONTROL MAINTENANCE SYSTEM SPECIALIST

LIU, YONG Chinese

MANDARIN BATCHING PLANT MAINTENANCE SPECIALIST

NEWLIFE CREMATORIUM AND COLUMBARIUM INC. 6 Rizal Ave. Ext. San Agustin Malabon City

1109.

JUNG (SPOUSE OF CHO), HEE KYUNG South Korean

PETROV, VLADIMIR Russian

CHAIRMAN

SW ARCHITECT

NPC ALLIANCE CORPORATION U-1901 19/f Antel 2000 Corporate Center 121 Valero St. Bel-air Makati City

RUNNINGMAN CORPORATION 8/f Techzone Bldg. 213 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. San Antonio Makati City 1158.

RICHKY Indonesian

INDONESIAN-LANGUAGE CUSTOMER SUPPORT STAFF

SAINATH TRADING INC. Unit P-10-a 343 West Service Road Sun Valley Parañaque City 1159.

RAJANI, RAHUL Indian

INTERNATIONAL IMPORT COORDINATOR

1110.

HATAMI RAMSHEH, AMIR Iranian

PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

SEWON INTERIOR CONSTRUCTION INC. Penthouse I, One Corporate Center, Meralco Ave. Cor. Julia Vargas Ave., Ortigas Center San Antonio Pasig City

1111.

IZADI, HOMAYOON Iranian

TREASURER AND FINANCE DIRECTOR

1160.

JOO, BUHO South Korean

CONSULTANT

1161.

YANG, HONGCHUL South Korean

CONSULTANT

P.J. LHUILLIER, INC. (CEBUANA LHUILLIER PAWNSHOP) 107 Quirino Avenue Baclaran Parañaque City 1112.

GRAY, ANDREW NICHOLAS British

CONSULTANT

PH GLOBAL JET EXPRESS INC. 11th Floor, The Marajo Tower 26th Street Cor. 4th Avenue Bgc Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

1162.

LIM CHUANG YEH Malaysian

OPERATION MANAGER

SKY DRAGON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES CORP. # 103 Mezzanine Floor Edsa Mandaluyong City

MANDARIN SALES AND MARKETING SPECIALIST

1163.

CHEN, QI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

PH GLOBAL KIDS SMART FUTURE TECHNOLOGY INC. Unit 904, 9th Floor Picadilly Star Bldg. 4th Avenue Corner 27th Street Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

1164.

CHEN, TENG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1165.

CHEN, XIAO Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1166.

HE, JINZHAO Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1167.

KE, QIANWEN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1168.

SHAO, XIAOQUN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1169.

ZHANG, HENG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1170.

LEI, YU Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1171.

LI, XINKUN Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1172.

MO, YUNHAO Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1113.

SUN, YUCHENG Chinese

SENSING TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION Boni Avenue Brgy. New Zaniga Mandaluyong City

1114.

TANG, WANJUN Chinese

BRANDING EXECUTIVE

1115.

GAN, SHIYUN Chinese

SALES & MARKETING OFFICER

PHILKO UBINS LTD. CORP. D301 Fil-estate Renaissance Towers D Meralco Ave. Ugong Pasig City 1116.

MA, YA SUNG South Korean

PROJECT MANAGER

PLAYNGO PH INC. 29th Floor The Finance Centre Bldg. 26th St. Cor 9th Ave. Bgc Fort Bonifacio Taguig City YUYEN, BENJAMART Thai

1068.

SUN, CHANGYI Chinese

MANDARIN MECHANICAL WORKS SUPERVISOR

1117.

1069.

WANG, YOUJIN Chinese

MANDARIN MECHANICAL WORKS SUPERVISOR

1070.

ZANG, LIGUANG Chinese

MANDARIN OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COST CONTROL SPECIALIST

PRANCING DESEN TECHNOLOGY SERVICES INC. Unit 1620 Burgundy Transpacific Place Taft Ave. 079, Bgy. 727 Malate Manila 1118.

HUANG, PENG Chinese

MANDARIN TECHNICAL SUPPORT

1173.

FAN, LIANGMING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1071.

BAI, SANHUI Chinese

REINFORCING IRON & REBAR SPECIALIST

1119.

LIU, XINGCAI Chinese

MANDARIN TECHNICAL SUPPORT

1174.

GAO, AZHEN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1072.

JI, ZHANEN Chinese

REINFORCING IRON & REBAR SPECIALIST

1120.

MAO, JUNXIAN Chinese

MANDARIN TECHNICAL SUPPORT

1175.

HUANG, BINGLONG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1073.

SUI, QINGDONG Chinese

MANDARIN ELECTRICAL AND CONTROL MAINTENANCE SYSTEM SPECIALIST

1121.

WANG, TONG Chinese

MANDARIN TECHNICAL SUPPORT

1176.

JIANG, KAI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1122.

MANDARIN TECHNICAL SUPPORT

1177.

BAI, JIE Chinese

WU, BO Chinese

LIU, HUI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1074.

MANDARIN OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE RECORDING SYSTEM ANALYST

1123.

YIN, SHI Chinese

MANDARIN TECHNICAL SUPPORT

1178.

LU, JIANMING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1075.

LI, JIANXING Chinese

REINFORCING IRON & REBAR SPECIALIST

1179.

NING, DARONG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1180.

QIN, YUANJUN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1181.

SONG, JIANZHI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1182.

WANG, SHAOJIE Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1183.

ZENG, NING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1184.

ZHANG, TINGYU Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1185.

ZHANG, DAWEI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1186.

CHEN, BAOJIN Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1187.

GAO, JIE Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1188.

LI, QUAN Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1189.

LI, JIARONG Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1190.

LIANG, WENTAO Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1191.

LIU, QINGHONG Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1192.

LONG, GUOPING Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1193.

MA, WENJU Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1194.

RONG, JIAJIN Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1195.

ZHENG, ZEHONG Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1196.

ZHOU, QI Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

NEW ORIENTAL CLUB88 CORPORATION Sky Garage Bldg. Aseana Avenue, Entertainment City Tambo Parañaque City

ACCOUNT MANAGER

PRIME GREAT COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES INC. 3/f To 8/f, Nissan Sucat Zentrum Building 8390 Dr. A Santos Avenue Bf Homes Parañaque City 1124.

DU, JIAQIANG Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1125.

DU, XIAOJUN Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1076.

CAO, XIA Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1077.

LI, JINXUAN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1126.

HUANG, ZUHAO Chinese

1078.

LIN, ZHENTING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1127.

LI, ZIQI Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1079.

LIU, MENG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1128.

LI, ZHIHONG Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1080.

LIU, CHAO Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1129.

LYU, BO Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1081.

QIU, MENG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1130.

NING, ZHAOMENG Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1082.

SONG, WEI Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1131.

ZHANG, MAOTANG Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1083.

ZHANG, JING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1132.

CHEN, MINGFANG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1084.

ZHANG, MENG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1133.

BAO, ZONGZHI Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1085.

CHIAM HUI LENG Malaysian

MALAYSIAN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1134.

DAI, CONG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1086.

KELVIN KEH KAH WENG Malaysian

MALAYSIAN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1135.

SHI, CHENGUANG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1087.

ZHANG, LIN Chinese

SUPERVISOR

1136.

YANG, TONG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1088.

CHEN, PEIYANG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1137.

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1089.

CHEN, JINGYUAN Chinese

CHEN, ZHANGPING Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

CHEN, PEIFENG Chinese

1138.

1090.

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

FAN, WENTONG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1091.

HE, YIXIAN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE

1139.

HU, ZHENGTAO Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

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FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

POSITION

NO.

POSITION

1197.

JIANG, ZHENGTAO Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1198.

OU, WEIQIANG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

SUTHERLAND GLOBAL SERVICES PHILIPPINES, INC. 12th Floor Philplans Corporate Center Kalayaan Avenue & Triangle Drive Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

1199.

ZENG, SIZHEN Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1200.

ZHANG, ZUZHI Chinese

1201.

NO.

1289.

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY HO, CHIEH-NI Taiwanese

ESTABLISHMENT / ADDRESS POSITION

NO.

CHINESE/FUKIEN SPEAKING OVERSEAS VIP PREMIER LINE ASSISTANT MANAGER

1341.

ZHANG, LIANG Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1342.

ZHANG, ZHIYONG Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1343.

ZHONG, JINHU Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1344.

FU, LINGLING Chinese

INFORMATION SECURITY ANALYST

1345.

HUANG, YONGQUAN Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1346.

LYU, LILI Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1347.

WANG, LIANMEI Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1348.

YUAN, ZHANGRUI Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1349.

HE, CHONG Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1350.

LI, ZEDONG Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1351.

LIU, DONG Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1352.

LIU, CHENGCHAO Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1353.

MO, YOUMING Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1354.

SHEN, XIAOLIN Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1355.

SHI, YOUZHI Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1356.

XU, JIN Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1357.

YU, MINGQUAN Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1358.

ZHAO, FANG Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1359.

LI, TENGFEI Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1360.

LIANG, TIANTIAN Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1361.

LIU, YIJIE Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1362.

LIU, HONGHUI Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1363.

PI, ZHENYU Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

ZHANG, ZEBIN Chinese

IT TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1248.

SHETTY, AKASH PRAKASH Indian

MANAGER-CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

UNILEVER PHILIPPINES, INC. 7/f Bonifacio Stopover Corporate Center 31st St. Cor 2nd Ave. Bonifacio Global City Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1249.

LEE, DUYOUNG South Korean

ASSOCIATE - CS INTERNET

1290.

ZHOU, CHENDONG Chinese

CHINESE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1250.

LEE, INHOE South Korean

ASSOCIATE - CS INTERNET

1202.

LEI, HONGJIE Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1251.

SON, MIN KWON South Korean

ASSOCIATE - CS INTERNET

1203.

QU, YUE Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1204.

WANG, MENGJIA Chinese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

1205.

1206.

ZHANG, MAN Chinese ZHANG, LIHUA Chinese

HORN, JOACHIM German

TIAN, SIN-YA Taiwanese

NEXT GENERATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS ADVISOR

ADMINISTRATIVE CONSULTANT 1

1209.

GU, QUANGANG Chinese

CHEF 2

1210.

REN, HUCHENG Chinese

CHEF 2

1211.

CHEN, ZHENGCAI Chinese

CHEF 3

1212.

ZHANG, YAGUO Chinese

CHEF 3

1213.

CHEN, WEN Chinese

1214.

ADMIN ASSISTANT(MANDARIN SPEAKING)

1253.

LE THI QUYNH HUONG Vietnamese

CONSULTANT

1254.

HUYNH THI XUAN HUONG Vietnamese

SENIOR CONSULTANT

1255.

NGUYEN DINH MINH Vietnamese

SENIOR CONSULTANT

1256.

NGUYEN TUNG LAM Vietnamese

SENIOR CONSULTANT

1257.

TRAN DANG DINH Vietnamese

SENIOR CONSULTANT

1258.

VO HUY THUAN Vietnamese

SENIOR CONSULTANT

TANZILA TRADING INC. U-29 3/f Bac. Bagong Milenyo F.b. Harrison St. Brgy. 076 Pasay City 1259.

ADMINISTRATIVE CONSULTANT 3

SOLARACE1 ENERGY CORP. 4/f 6750 Ayala Office Tower 6750 Ayala Ave. San Lorenzo Makati City KASCHENBACH, JOHANNES German

DANG GIANG BINH Vietnamese

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

SODEXO ON-SITE SERVICES PHILIPPINES, INC. 11/f Ba Lepanto Bldg. 8747 Paseo De Roxas Bel-air Makati City 1208.

1252.

CHINESE RESEARCH ANALYST

SMART COMMUNICATIONS, INC. 6799 Ayala Avenue San Lorenzo Makati City 1207.

SUPERANTS INC. Unit 2802 The Trade And Financial Tower 7th Ave. Cor. 32nd St. Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

ADMINISTRATIVE PROCUREMENT ANALYST

TECH MAHINDRA LIMITED 5 Eastwood Cyberpark City Bagumbayan 3 Quezon City 1260.

BHRARA, JAYANT Indian

ACCOUNT DIRECTOR

TECSCO GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INC. Flr. No. 2nd-5th, Bldg. No. 2264, Tecsco Tower Bldg. Aurora Blvd.

Cor. Edang St., Zone 16 Barangay 149, District 1 Pasay City 1261.

FENDY ALI Indonesian

BAHASA SPEAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1262.

MOTE, VISHAL RAJESH Indian

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

PROJECT MANAGER

SPEED QUALITY TECH INC. 12/f, 14/f & 15/f Alphaland Corporate Tower 7232 Ayala Ave. Extn.

Cor. Malugay St. Bel-air Makati City

LAI, SHUILONG Chinese

TELETECH CUSTOMER CARE MANAGEMENT PHILIPPINES, INC. Five E-com, 10th Floor Harbor Drive Corner Palm Coast Avenue Mall Of Asia Complex Pasay City

1215.

CHENG, YUANXU Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1216.

GE, HAIFANG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1217.

HE, JIAHUI Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1218.

HSU, YA-CHUN Taiwanese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1264.

THE PICASSO RENTAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION G/f The Picasso Serviced Residences 119 L.p. Leviste St. Bel-air Makati City

1219.

HU, DI Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1220.

LI, YANG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1221.

LI, QIANG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1222.

LIU, BO Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1223.

QU, HUICHAO Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1224.

SUN, SHUAIPENG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

WANG, GUANGXU Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1225.

1226.

WU, CHUNTING Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1227.

YU, PENG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1228.

YUAN, KAIKAI Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1229.

ZENG, JIE Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1230.

ZHANG, XIAOJIE Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1231.

CHIU, YUNG-FAN Taiwanese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

QI, JINLONG Chinese CHEN, YEN-FU Taiwanese

1263.

CHOI, KING SHU Chinese

TECHNICAL SUPPORT REPRESENTATIVE - CHINESE

TELEPHILIPPINES INCORPORATED Edsa Central It Center 2 United Street Corner Edsa Greenfield District Mandaluyong City

1265.

YELEGEN, BARAN Turkish

ZAKHARKA, LIZAVETA Belarusian

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

1298.

CHEN, LONG Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1299.

CHEN, WENNA Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1300.

CHENG, BINBIN Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1301.

DUAN, HONGYUAN Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1302.

GAN, LIN Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1303.

GUO, YANG Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1304.

HU, YUXIN Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1305.

HU, XULING Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1306.

JIANG, WEI Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1307.

LI, MIN Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1308.

LI, BING Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1309.

LI, WEI Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1310.

LI, LEI Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1311.

LIU, YANG Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1312.

LIU, YALIANG Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1364.

1313.

LIU, WEI Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1314.

LIU, XINCHAO Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

W-TECH SOLUTIONS INC. 5/f Eco Plaza Bldg. 2305 Chino Roces Ave. Extn. Magallanes Makati City

1315.

MA, FAN Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1316.

NING, HAILU Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1271.

1319.

TANG, YUFENG Chinese

1320.

WANG, LIANBAO Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1321.

WEI, ZHEHAN Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1322.

WU, QIONG Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1323.

XU, CHANGLIANG Chinese

1324.

YAN, XU Chinese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1325.

YAN, YUHAO Chinese

1326.

1236.

GUO, JIAO Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1237.

JHU, FANG-YI Taiwanese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1277.

1238.

LIM WEI SHEN Malaysian

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1239.

MU, GUOQING Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

TOPRATED SOLUTION CONSULTANCY INC. Unit 25d Zeta Ii Bldg. 191 Salcedo St. San Lorenzo Makati City 1278.

HU, XUEXIAN Chinese

1240.

PEI, ZHENDONG Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

CHINESE SPEAKING ADMIN ASSOCIATE

1279.

HU, ZHIWEI Chinese

1241.

PHAN THI DIEU LINH Vietnamese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

CHINESE SPEAKING ADMIN ASSOCIATE

1280.

LI, TIANDAN Chinese

1242.

WAN, WENJIAN Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1281.

CAPTAIN

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

MANDARIN TECHNICAL SUPPORT

KOREAN OPERATIONS CSR

1247.

1297.

CHEN, SISI Chinese

ZENG, ZHEN Chinese

SIM, HAETSAL South Korean

VILLEGAS, EZEQUIEL ALEJANDRO HERNANDEZ Venezuelan

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

TAN, JIAGANG Chinese

1276.

SUNLIGHT EXPRESS AIRWAYS CORPORATION 10/f Ri-rance Bulding Block 2, Lot 16 Macapagal Avenue Tambo Parañaque City

CHEN, SHENGQUAN Chinese

1318.

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

TREASURER

1296.

1270.

CHONG LI KUAN Malaysian

KOMURA, SATOSHI Japanese

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

MANDARIN OPERATION SPECIALIST

1235.

1246.

CHEN, XIAOJUN Chinese

PENG, WEI Chinese

1234.

SUMITOMO METAL MINING PHILIPPINE HOLDINGS CORPORATION 25/f Nac Tower Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

1295.

1317.

KOREAN OPERATIONS CSR

IT PROGRAM COORDINATOR

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

TAN, YAO Chinese

1275.

MIYAMOTO, KENTA Japanese

CHEN, ZHICHAO Chinese

1269.

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1245.

1294.

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

CHIANG, PENG-CHUNG Taiwanese

STRAIGHT LOGIN INCORPORATED Unit 327 Avida Cityflex 7th St. Cor. Lane T Bonifacio Global City Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST

QIU, YUTONG Chinese

KWON, SEHWAN South Korean

MANDARIN DEAL DESK

1293.

1268.

TELUS INTERNATIONAL PHILIPPINES, INC. Units 23/f, 31st/f - 37th/f Discovery Centre Adb Avenue, Ortigas Center San Antonio Pasig City BAHASA INDONESIA TEAM LEADER

POSITION

LU ZHEN SIONG Malaysian

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE

1274.

HONG, ZHAOHAN Chinese

VAN GOGH BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING INC. 10th,14th,16th,17th Flr. Wilcon It Hub 2251 Chino Roces Ave. Bangkal Makati City

HUANG, ZIMEI Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

1244.

SENIOR WORKFORCE ANALYST

MANDARIN ACCOUNTS STAFF

KIM, JUNGKANG South Korean

MANDARIN DEAL DESK

1292.

VARGAS FERNANDEZ, MARCELA TATIANA Costa Rican

1267.

1273.

1243.

VALOR GLOBAL, INC. 18th Floor Panorama Bldg. 34th St. Cor. Lane A Bonifacio Global City Fort Bonifacio Taguig City

ZHANG, FENGMING Chinese

MANDARIN CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALIST

DONG, QINGMEI Chinese

TEAM MANAGER

MANDARIN ACCOUNTS STAFF

KATAOKA, JUNICHI Japanese

STAR POWER HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY INC. G/f 95. Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. Palanan Makati City

GONDA, WATARU Japanese

XI, HONGYAN Chinese

1272.

1233.

1291.

1266.

MARSIUS MAMPOLANGI MALKHIZEDEK Indonesian

1232.

PROCUREMENT DIRECTOR

UPWARD NEXT INC. 23f Gt Tower International 6813 Ayala Ave. Cor. H.v. Dela Costa St. Bel-air Makati City

GENERAL MANAGER

TELOQUET OUTSOURCING SERVICES INC. Upper 2/f Unit B 2444-a Burgundy Transpacific Place Taft Ave. 079, Bgy 727 Malate Manila

DU TOIT, HELEEN ELSA South African

FOREIGN NATIONAL / NATIONALITY

I.T TECHNICAL MANDARIN

1365.

JUNG, JONGPIL South Korean

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

WIPRO LIMITED PHILIPPINE BRANCH 18/f Philamlife Tower 8767 Paseo De Roxas Bel-air Makati City 1366.

HEGDE, NAGARAJ Indian

BUSINESS ANALYST

YONDU INC. 7/f Panorama Bldg. 34th St. Cor. Lane Abgc Fort Bonifacio Taguig City 1367.

JUNG, YUKIL South Korean

KOREAN COLLECTIONS ANALYST

1368.

LAPINSKI, PAWEL KAROL Polish

POLISH TRANSLATOR

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Concern raised on arriving ‘balikbayan‘ and Covid risks

By Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo

@akosistellaBM Special to the BusinessMirror

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OME quarters have raised the fear that the arrival of balikbayan, especially those from the United States, could increase the Covid-19 infections in the Philippines, now standing at 431,879.

A government source told the BusinessMirror some members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) are suggesting balikbayan also be required to undergo a Covid RT-PCR “test before they travel, especially if coming from high-risk countries.”

The IATF-EID on Thursday decided to allow balikbayan (homecoming Filipinos) including their foreign spouses and children to visit the Philippines beginning December 7.

Covid-19 infections have reached 13.45 million in the United States, with deaths placed at 267,192, according to published reports. This is the reason the IATF-EID has required the arriving Filipinos and their families to take the RT-PCR test upon arrival at the airport.

(See, “PHL reopens to balikbayans in time for the holidays,” in the BusinessMirror, November 27, 2020.)

Other tourism stakeholders have independently suggested that airlines “also require their passengers to take an RT-PCR test before boarding their flights to Manila.”

One tour operator said, “We are proposing to PAL [Philippine Airlines] that they require this of their passengers flying from the US. Perhaps they can include the cost of the Covid tests in the airfare.”

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and Department of Tourism (DOT) both recommended the reopening of the Philippines to balikbayans, according to a government source. “Filipinos abroad have been appealing to the DFA, not just DOT [that they be allowed to come home for the holidays], because they go to the consulate to ask for visas,” said the source.

A tourism stakeholder cautioned, however, the possibility of super-spreader events such as family reunions to celebrate the arrival of their balikbayan. “You can’t avoid that,” he said. “I have mixed feelings about this; I can only hope that protocols are really followed.”

But he noted, if one were to look at MRT stations, “like the one near Megamall, the people are all crowded. There’s no social distancing.”

According to the DOT, there are 10 million Filipinos living or working overseas.

More staycation hotels

In a related development, more hotels have been approved to accept staycations, just in time for the arrival of balikbayans the Christmas and New Year holidays.

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Demand, policies, financing seen to stretch out recovery

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By Elijah Felice E. Rosales

@alyasjah

EARLY half of German investors in the Philippines expect the economy to recover only by the end of President Duterte’s term in 2022 due to concerns mainly on demand, policies and financing.

Based on the AHK World Business Outlook Sur vey for Fall 2020, 48 percent of German firms in the country project the economy will recover in 2022, while 31 percent see a rebound next year.

Moreover, one in every five anticipates recovery to go beyond 2022.

The largest risks for investors remain the same as those they indi-

cated in the Spring survey, but the concerns on demand, economic policy framework and financing have worsened.

In the Fall cycle, worries on demand went up to 64 percent from 58 percent, while uncertainties on economic policy framework surged to 58 percent, from 40 percent.

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‘Load forever’ bill should get okay during pandemic–Win

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Coast Guard personnel were the first donors who joined the Dugong Mason Blood DonationBloodletting and Bloodbanking Advocacy held at the Grand Lodge of the Philippines Plaridel Masonic Temple in Malate, Manila, on Saturday (November 28). The organizers said the bloodletting advocacy will benefit their brethren, families and communities. Calls for blood donors to step forward have mounted during the pandemic, as people avoided going to hospitals for fear of Covid-19 infection, even as the need for blood donations became even more urgent.

The restrictions posed by the pandemic have increased the burden on the Philippine Red Cross and private organizations like the Masons to step up their blood donation campaigns. NONOY LACZA

ONGRESS was asked to frontload passage of remedial legislation removing expiry dates on the validity of prepaid load credits for phone calls and Internet services.

Once enacted into law, Senate Bill No. 365, embodying the proposed Prepaid Load Forever Act, will prohibit public telecommunications entities (PTEs) and information and communication technologies (ICT) Internet service providers from imposing an expiration date on the validity period of prepaid load credits, regardless of the amount involved, unless fully consumed.

In a statement over the weekend, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian,

its principal author, called on lawmakers to “have the bill seeking to lift the validity period of prepaid load credits for phones and Internet services tackled in the Senate.”

Gatchalian pointed out that “the harsh reality in this era of coronavirus pandemic is that we rely on ICT in our daily life,” stressing that “for those with limited resources, every peso counts.”

The forfeitureof unused prepaid load credits due to an expiration period “is somehow unconscionable under the current situation,” he said. “That is unwarranted as subscribers should be made to consume the load credits and avail of the services they have paid for.”

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Exec: Megawide, investors hold informal talks on Naia

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By VG Cabuag

@villygc

EGAWIDE Construction Corp. said it is open to forging deals with potential investors for a multibillion project that aims to rehabilitate the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia).

Megawide chairman and CEO Edgar B. Saavedra said the company is talking informally with several potential investors who may contribute to project financing or have an equity stake in the company that would operate the country’s main international airport.

Saavedra said the company cannot hold formal talks with these potential investors at this time since the deal with the government is still being finalized.

“If it’s more of an opportunity, why not,” Saavedra told reporters in an online briefing, adding that formal talks may start next year.

“The TOR [terms of reference] is even far more favorable to the government; the government will be making more money, including the local government unit. They made sure that they will get more and on top of the capital expenditures that we will spend for the project,” he said.

Megawide with its Indian partner GMR Infrastructure Ltd. bagged the original proponent status for the NAIA rehabilitation project in July after the superconsortium, com-

posed of several of the country’s top conglomerates, backed out from the deal.

Megawide’s proposal will spend some P109 billion for a 25-year concession under the build-operatetransfer scheme.

Megawide came under fire over the last few weeks when reports surfaced that its Indian partner has left the group, and that it has no financial capability to undertake such a big project.

Saavedra admitted that some of their investors were becoming concerned over the news reports. Megawide has since denied that GMR left them and said it is capable of financing the project.

The company, which built and now operates Mactan-Cebu International Airport and is constructing another passenger terminal for the Clark International Airport, listed last week its new preferred shares at the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), raising some P4.36 billion.

It said it will use the proceeds of the follow-on offering for the capacity expansion of its pre-cast

THE listing of Megawide's preferred shares on Friday was attended by (from left, by row) Megawide Executive Director for Infrastructure Development Manuel Louie B. Ferrer and Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) COO Roel A. Refran; Megawide Chief Financial Officer Ramon H. Diaz, Megawide Chairman and CEO Edgar B. Saavedra; Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Emilio B. Aquino, PSE President and CEO Ramon S. Monzon and PSE Issuer Regulation Division OIC Marigel B. Garcia; PNB Capital and Investment Corp. SAVP and Deal Head Jose Eduardo de Rivera, RCBC Capital Corp. First Vice President Xavier Y. Zialcita, Securities Clearing Corporation of the Philippines COO Renee D. Rubio and PSE General Counsel Veronica V. Del Rosario. Contributed Photo

plant and to fund its infrastructure projects.

“Since its initial public offering last February 18, 2011, we have seen Megawide expand its expertise and portfolio from residential and office buildings to airport infrastructures, renewable energy plants and transport-related projects. The company has proven to be a modern day David battling Goliath in the country’s engineering and infrastructure sphere,” PSE President and CEO Ramon S. Monzon said.

“I am pleased that PSE has proven to be a reliable conduit for Megawide for its capital raising activities: from

its P2.3 billion IPO in 2011, to its P4 billion series 1 preferred share offering in 2014 and now for its P4.36 billion series 2A and 2B preferred share offering,” Monzon said.

In his keynote message during the listing ceremony, SEC Chairman Emilio B. Aquino noted that the Duterte administration has embarked on the “Build, Build, Build” (BBB) Program since its early months to accelerate infrastructure development of the country “In addition to accelerating the growth of infrastructure, the BBB Program has also been credited as a key driver in boosting the economy despite the pandemic.”

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“This is a testament to how fast we can mobilize our store expansion programs which we attribute to our synergies with the Villar Group of companies,” she said.

AllHome remains optimistic about its prospects for remainder of 2020 as it is set to open one more branch in Bulacan next month to end the year with 49 stores.

AllHome’s income in January to September dropped by 21 percent to P588.12 million from last year’s P746.19 million. Its income was affected by the lockdowns that were mainly imposed during the second quarter.

The company said it was able to

recover in the third quarter, which pushed its nine-month sales to P8.32 billion, a 2-percent increase from last year's P8.18 billion.

For the third quarter alone it recorded sales of P3.47 billion, 11 percent higher than last year's P3.12 billion.

Net income for the quarter was at P312.46 million, flat from last year's P311.88 million.

The company said it maximized its seven categories to generate sales, with the soft categories compensating for the dip in hard category sales. Gross margin improved to 31.3 percent from 29.7 percent last year. VG Cabuag

LLHOME Corp., the listed retail firm of the Villar Group, has opened its Cabanatuan branch, its 48th store in the country, as part of the company’s push to cover the populated areas in Luzon.

The Cabanatuan branch in Mabini Street Extension is AllHome’s sixth store in Luzon, outside of Metro Manila, the company said.

AllHome Cabanatuan also houses the other retail brands of the Villar Group, such as its supermarket, Coffee Project and Bake My Day. “The third quarter showed promising results. Based on historical sales, we are looking forward to a better fourth quarter with the

holiday rush coming in,” AllHome chairman Manuel B, Villar Jr. said.

“The All Value retail eco-system has proved to be valuable in the expansion of AllHome. The presence of All Day Supermarket, Coffee Project and Bake My Day helped to capture the local market,” he said.

The store also houses seven key categories—hardware, construction, tiles and sanitary wares, furniture, appliances, linen and home wares.

Benjamarie Therese N. Serrano, the company's president, said AllHome resumed the opening of new stores as soon as they saw positive results of the previous months.

Pilipinas Shell unveils import facility in Subic

AirAsia gets top 7 stars for Covid-19 health ratings

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ILIPINAS Shell said it has opened a 54-million liter capacity import facility in Subic to strengthen its supply chain in Northern Luzon.

The Subic facility is strategically located to enhance access to Regions 1, 2, 3, and the Cordillera Administrative Region.

The launch of its Subic facility, added the oil firm, signifies its support to government’s efforts to jumpstart the economy amid the Covid-19 pandemic. It also puts the oil firm in a better position to respond to disruptions brought about by the typhoon season.

“We share government’s optimism and remain committed as the country’s partner in nationbuilding by leveraging our global expertise to strengthen our presence in the Philippines and bolstering supply ahead of Asia’s anticipated bounce-back in fuel demand.

At Shell, we seek to further power progress in the Philippines by fueling economic growth through an efficient and reliable supply of worldclass products,” said Pilipinas Shell President Cesar Romero.

The Subic facility is the oil firm’s third Medium Range (MR) vessel-capable import terminal. The other two are the Tabangao refinery-turned-import terminal in Batangas and its North Mindanao Import Facility (NMIF) in Cagayan de Oro City in Mindanao. Lenie Lectura

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IRASIA was awarded the top 7 stars for every airline in the Group for Covid-19 health ratings from the aviation safety experts at Airlineratings.com, following the implementation of numerous industry innovations to make flying more seamless, hygienic and contactless.

As outlined on the Airlineratings. com website, airlines are judged on seven criteria including website information on Covid-19 procedures, the wearing of face masks, personal protection equipment for the crew, modified meal service, regular deep cleaning of aircraft, personal sanitizer kits and social distancing onboard.

Airlineratings.com Editor-inChief Geoffrey Thomas said that “it was concerning to find that many airlines did not appear to comply with the Covid-19 agreed standards for the protection of passengers and crew. That is changing and our team is reviewing compliance on a weekly basis. AirAsia was one of the first airlines to aggressively adopt all the recommendations."

“These are based on the crite-

ria set out by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on regional and international safety guidelines.”

Thomas added that “it is a bit like the most dangerous part of the journey is the taxi, Grab, Gojek or Uber ride to the airport and so it is with Covid-19. You are in far more danger of getting Covid-19 en route to the airport than at the airport or on the plane.” AirAsia Group COO, Javed Malik said, “We thank the aviation experts at Airlineratings.com for their recognition of the priority we are putting on making sure that air travel is not only safe and affordable, but also more convenient, seamless and hygienic in this new world we now live in. Innovation has always been in our DNA and this is a great testament to all the hard work we have put in, working overtime during the downtime to continue to revolutionize air travel, reduce costs and enhance the guest experience.”

Earlier this week, AirAsia an-

nounced it’s newest innovation— Scan2Fly­— an industry leading technology that can determine a passenger’s eligibility to fly before they arrive at the airport, including real time verification of relevant health documentation.

With Scan2Fly, AirAsia guests can scan and upload their medical certificates during the online self check-in process. This includes the corresponding processing of any required documents to verify whether the passenger is approved to fly by the various authorities and possesses a valid Covid-19 Negative Certificate.

"Once the documents are uploaded, a report is provided automatically with real time approval/rejection status, including the reason for any rejection. The system has already gone live for a number of AirAsia flights from Malaysia’s KLIA2 Airport to/from Singapore and Surabaya with Jakarta joining soon and it will eventually be introduced to other AirAsia destinations, where valid travel documents will be required prior to travel.”

PAL offers discount on Covid-19 test

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By Recto L. Mercene @rectomercene

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TARTING December 1, flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) is offering a P500 discount on reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test for domestic or international flghts in Manila, with test results released within 12 to 24 hours.

The P500 discount is subtracted from the regular rate of P4,500.

The Covid-19 RT-PCR testing site is located at the Philippine Airlines Learning Center in Ermita, Manila, with Detoxicare Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory as its Department of Health-accredited partner.

PAL said its testing center’s competitive advantage lies in providing flexibility of choice, early release of results and pricing perks.

PAL ticket holders may choose either a drive-thru or walk-in service option. The testing facility is open daily from Monday to Sunday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with no noon break.

“Passengers will experience predeparture convenience with the testing facility’s guaranteed release of results within 24 hours,” the airline said.

PAL travelers may pay in cash (Philippine peso), card (debit or credit), GCash, PayPal, WeChat Pay, or Alipay.

Upon entering the testing facility, PAL passengers must present their

ID, PAL ticket, and QR code indicating completed registration on the PAL Passenger Profile and Health Declaration form. PAL passengers may access the form at https://bit. ly/PALIntPPHD. Except for flights to the US, Canada, and Australia, all passengers must register and accomplish the online Passenger Profile and Health Declaration Form as early as 5 days before departure. For a list of countries where PAL flies to and are requiring RT-PCR tests, passengers are advised to visit https://bit.ly/ PALTravelsFromPH. In the meantime, PAL has also partnered with other accredited laboratory and testing facilities to provide passengers exclusive and discounted testing fees and/or quicker release of results. Passengers may visit www.philippineairlines.com for the full list of PAL other testing partners.

There are currently 8 testing partners with more than 50 branches combined, available within Metro Manila and other provinces like Cavite, Pampanga, Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna, Batangas, Iloilo, and Cebu.

The testing fee and release of results vary among testing partners.

To avail of the services of PAL’s other testing partners, passengers must proceed to the testing facility and present their ID, PAL ticket, and QR code indicating completion of registration via the PAL Passenger Profile and Health Declaration Form.

Pag-IBIG postpones hike of decades-old contribution rate

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FTER consulting with labor and employer groups, Pag-IBIG Fund said it decided to defer the January 2021 increase of its members’ monthly contributions. This is in consideration of the plight of both workers and business owners during the pandemic, officials said on Friday (November 27).

Secretary Eduardo D. del Rosario, who heads the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) and the 11-member Pag-IBIG Fund Board of Trustees, said that they approved the Pag-IBIG Fund Management's recommendation to defer the hike in the monthly contributions of its members—from P100 to P150 in 2021, and move the implementation by one year to January 2022. The deferment also applies to the share of their employers. “We know that many of our members and employers faced financial challenges in the last few months because of the effects brought about by the pandemic to the economy. After consulting with our

stakeholders, we will no longer push through with the increase of the members’ monthly contributions next year," del Rosario said.

He added this is in line with the Duterte administration's efforts to ease the financial burden of Filipinos and help businesses recover.

In 2019, agency officials approved the increase of its members’ monthly contributions, which had remained unchanged since the 1980s.

According to Pag-IBIG Fund Chief Executive Officer Acmad Rizaldy P. Moti, it was projected at that time that the amount of loans disbursed will eventually outpace the total collections from both loan payments and members’ contributions each year.

“So, we proposed to increase the monthly savings by P50 to have enough funds to answer the growing demand and maintain the low rates of our loans. However, with the pandemic reaching our country, the circumstances have changed," Moti said.

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November 27, 2020

Net Foreign Bid Ask Open High Low Close Volume Value Trade (Peso) Stocks Buy (Sell) FINANCIALS

ASIA UNITED BDO UNIBANK BANK PH ISLANDS CHINABANK EAST WEST BANK METROBANK PB BANK PHIL NATL BANK PSBANK RCBC SECURITY BANK UNION BANK BRIGHT KINDLE COL FINANCIAL FERRONOUX HLDG FILIPINO FUND IREMIT MEDCO HLDG MANULIFE NTL REINSURANCE PHIL STOCK EXCH SUN LIFE

44.9 45.2 45.85 45.85 44.85 44.9 4,400 197,945 -143,975 103.3 104 105.5 105.5 103.3 103.3 12,211,250 1,266,381,129 -227,837,527 82.7 83 88 89 83 83 79,392,190 6,668,544,307.50 -174,829,844 25.8 25.95 25.5 25.95 25.5 25.95 190,600 4,933,230 756,780 11.6 11.62 11.48 11.64 11.44 11.62 276,200 3,182,594 137,260 47.55 47.95 46.7 47.95 46 47.95 11,923,100 562,880,300 -6,333,225 9.59 9.85 9.88 9.88 9.85 9.85 1,200 11,826 29.95 30 30.2 30.4 29.7 29.95 279,400 8,389,965 -1,206,110 53.1 53.4 53.35 53.4 53.35 53.4 1,130 60,328 18.42 18.7 18.9 19.1 18.32 18.7 13,300 249,456 30,206.00 123 124.5 121 124.5 118 124.5 1,360,790 165,497,452 58,572,573 66.7 66.9 66.6 66.9 66 66.85 29,770 1,985,992.50 6,630 0.93 0.96 0.93 0.93 0.93 0.93 21,000 19,530 27.7 28 28 28.3 27.65 28 20,200 559,065 4 4.05 4.01 4.07 4 4.05 65,000 261,820 8,000 6.93 7.44 6.88 7.44 6.88 7.44 3,900 28,512 1.34 1.38 1.32 1.38 1.28 1.38 132,000 176,860 0.34 0.35 0.33 0.35 0.33 0.34 1,390,000 466,600 67,000 732 799 733 733 731 731 60 43,930 0.66 0.67 0.66 0.68 0.64 0.68 842,000 557,310 -20,480 158.2 159 158.1 160 157.5 159 2,850 450,978 -340,476 2,000 2,080 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 700 1,400,000 1,370,000

INDUSTRIAL AC ENERGY 6.23 6.24 6.1 6.39 6.02 6.24 69,247,700 432,433,772 26,478,098 ALSONS CONS 1.41 1.43 1.43 1.43 1.41 1.43 1,183,000 1,680,670 2,860 25.75 26.2 27 27 25.75 25.75 16,539,500 430,954,625 -269,082,350 ABOITIZ POWER 0.285 0.29 0.305 0.315 0.285 0.29 70,070,000 20,917,550 40,050 BASIC ENERGY FIRST GEN 28.4 29.35 28.65 29.35 28 29.35 2,058,900 60,229,090 22,451,965 FIRST PHIL HLDG 66.1 66.2 65.6 67 65.6 66.2 25,530 1,694,553 -776,953.00 281.6 287 287 294.8 281.6 281.6 1,149,750 325,617,980 -72,634,506 MERALCO 14.8 14.98 15.34 15.4 14.8 14.8 4,529,100 67,861,580 -17,990,108 MANILA WATER PETRON 4.07 4.27 4.01 4.27 4 4.27 12,411,000 51,844,660 31,868,450 3.42 3.49 3.41 3.49 3.34 3.49 69,000 235,680 17,050 PETROENERGY 12.7 12.78 12.6 12.86 12.5 12.8 48,100 612,480 PHX PETROLEUM PILIPINAS SHELL 19.74 19.76 19.6 19.86 19.6 19.76 4,965,800 98,159,494 -50,315,542 SPC POWER 10.78 10.8 10.7 10.8 10.7 10.8 303,300 3,266,234 -998,728 8.69 8.7 8.55 8.85 8.52 8.7 1,493,600 12,928,688 -955,830.00 AGRINURTURE 3.25 3.26 3.19 3.3 3.15 3.26 2,225,000 7,219,540 123,760 AXELUM BOGO MEDELLIN 76.4 84.8 76.3 76.3 76.3 76.3 30 2,289 CNTRL AZUCARERA 15.98 16 15.98 17.8 15.32 15.98 52,600 873,446 17.54 17.7 17.52 17.7 17.5 17.54 1,098,900 19,315,508 2,123,468 CENTURY FOOD DEL MONTE 5.6 5.88 5.6 5.88 5.51 5.88 219,000 1,243,749 -610,400 DNL INDUS 7.03 7.05 7 7.08 6.91 7.05 5,431,300 38,272,231 416,223 10.04 10.08 10.06 10.08 10 10.08 1,516,200 15,259,694 -885,056 EMPERADOR 67 67.35 67.5 67.95 67 67.35 676,310 45,547,239 -33,932,363 SMC FOODANDBEV ALLIANCE SELECT 0.67 0.69 0.67 0.69 0.67 0.69 110,000 74,070 FRUITAS HLDG 1.5 1.52 1.5 1.53 1.48 1.52 12,581,000 18,936,340 323,430 51.7 52.4 52 52.95 51.5 51.7 10,920 565,734.50 GINEBRA JOLLIBEE 188.9 189 189.7 194.3 189 189 1,719,420 325,406,330 -46,399,591 LIBERTY FLOUR 65.2 70 70.05 75 61.65 65.2 18,160 1,232,861.50 7.92 8.99 8.2 8.99 8.2 8.99 600 5,157 MACAY HLDG MAXS GROUP 7.47 7.48 7.21 7.47 7.11 7.47 793,300 5,844,680 3,460,501 MG HLDG 0.17 0.18 0.18 0.181 0.16 0.18 1,520,000 264,410 -17,500 SHAKEYS PIZZA 8.23 8.24 8.01 8.23 7.95 8.23 262,100 2,124,994 14,325 1.32 1.33 1.32 1.33 1.29 1.32 8,879,000 11,563,520 -657,390 ROXAS AND CO 4.75 4.8 4.75 4.75 4.7 4.7 13,000 61,300 -18,930 RFM CORP ROXAS HLDG 1.86 1.89 1.86 1.86 1.86 1.86 15,000 27,900 14,880 0.114 0.12 0.12 0.12 0.12 0.12 10,000 1,200 SWIFT FOODS UNIV ROBINA 142 142.1 145.1 145.1 141.2 142 4,999,020 710,418,293 -142,574,266 VITARICH 0.9 0.91 0.89 0.92 0.87 0.91 4,855,000 4,353,280 VICTORIAS 2.5 2.52 2.5 2.52 2.5 2.52 7,000 17,560 53.5 54.35 54.45 54.45 53.8 53.8 500 27,075 CONCRETE A CONCRETE B 52.15 55.2 55.2 55.2 55.2 55.2 20 1,104 CEMEX HLDG 1.64 1.65 1.65 1.69 1.63 1.64 9,659,000 15,982,400 -394,430 DAVINCI CAPITAL 5.19 5.38 5.21 5.38 5.15 5.38 102,900 534,440 14.9 15.4 14.9 15.4 14.5 15.4 853,800 12,892,684 661,768 EAGLE CEMENT EEI CORP 8.02 8.05 7.7 8.2 7.7 8.02 1,706,400 13,672,315 -1,008,337 HOLCIM 6.86 6.9 6.63 6.95 6.47 6.9 3,287,200 21,817,911 -326,182 9.47 9.53 9.15 9.63 8.82 9.47 8,415,200 77,461,583 2,366,972 MEGAWIDE 8.99 9.06 9 9.1 8.9 9.06 24,800 224,069 PHINMA TKC METALS 0.84 0.86 0.87 0.87 0.84 0.86 122,000 104,790 6,090 VULCAN INDL 1.04 1.05 1.02 1.04 1 1.04 1,610,000 1,652,710 1.91 1.95 1.9 1.93 1.89 1.93 492,000 930,500 CROWN ASIA EUROMED 2.62 2.65 2.56 2.67 2.48 2.65 1,962,000 5,074,950 -53,000 PRYCE CORP 4.85 4.86 4.8 4.86 4.7 4.86 174,000 838,890 -242,500.00 22.9 23.2 22.8 23.2 22.8 23.2 358,700 8,247,100 410,400 CONCEPCION 2.61 2.62 2.6 2.69 2.6 2.62 8,844,000 23,429,080 -1,495,610 GREENERGY INTEGRATED MICR 7.3 7.39 7.06 7.39 7 7.39 341,600 2,459,274 IONICS 1.05 1.07 1.1 1.1 1.03 1.05 1,114,000 1,174,610 5.14 5.39 5.2 5.39 5.13 5.39 7,700 39,584 PANASONIC SFA SEMICON 1.53 1.55 1.56 1.56 1.5 1.53 760,000 1,157,190 -9,300 CIRTEK HLDG 6.79 6.8 6.5 6.85 6.41 6.79 3,218,500 21,616,426 346,463

HOLDING & FRIMS ABACORE CAPITAL 0.62 0.63 0.62 0.64 0.61 0.63 9,900,000 6,158,790 -412,940 ASIABEST GROUP 8.72 9.27 9.49 9.49 8.68 9.36 119,800 1,059,228 107,610 823.5 828 824.5 847.5 812 823.5 1,111,390 913,990,860 -129,002,980 AYALA CORP 42.2 42.35 44.3 44.45 42.2 42.2 10,004,500 424,376,730 -117,232,775 ABOITIZ EQUITY ALLIANCE GLOBAL 9.7 9.8 9.49 9.8 9.35 9.8 6,465,000 62,511,663 15,067,066 AYALA LAND LOG 3.12 3.14 3.04 3.14 3.03 3.14 2,532,000 7,868,400 2,241,850 6.3 6.4 6.38 6.38 6.3 6.3 30,700 193,870 38,220 ANSCOR 0.69 0.7 0.68 0.72 0.68 0.7 1,213,000 830,510 ANGLO PHIL HLDG ATN HLDG A 1.03 1.04 0.96 1.05 0.96 1.03 27,471,000 27,746,820 1.02 1.03 0.97 1.04 0.97 1.03 2,011,000 2,040,520 -1,285,710 ATN HLDG B 5.5 5.77 5.5 5.77 5.47 5.77 7,849,900 44,435,820 -467,242 COSCO CAPITAL DMCI HLDG 5.54 5.6 5.5 5.6 5.45 5.6 11,073,200 61,457,842 38,871,655 FILINVEST DEV 9.16 9.28 9.08 9.44 9.08 9.16 15,100 139,179 -51,380.00 0.21 0.226 0.21 0.21 0.21 0.21 50,000 10,500 FORUM PACIFIC GT CAPITAL 580 584 578 603 574 580 574,670 334,597,060 -255,125 HOUSE OF INV 3.93 4.2 3.93 3.93 3.93 3.93 7,000 27,510 JG SUMMIT 65.65 66.3 66.05 67.15 65.1 65.65 10,901,120 715,925,064 -99,378,443 4.99 5.17 4.41 5 4.41 4.99 52,700 251,025 1,000 JOLLIVILLE HLDG KEPPEL HLDG A 5.01 5.29 3.51 5.72 3.51 5.05 5,640,000 26,057,860 LODESTAR 0.81 0.83 0.84 0.85 0.81 0.82 616,000 503,600 3.08 3.13 3.11 3.14 3.08 3.08 1,635,000 5,080,150 -2,232,880 LOPEZ HLDG 13.18 13.2 13.3 13.38 13 13.2 2,652,000 34,885,194 -9,612,188 LT GROUP MABUHAY HLDG 0.52 0.54 0.54 0.54 0.52 0.54 235,000 124,200 MJC INVESTMENTS 1.81 1.89 1.88 1.89 1.88 1.89 23,000 43,300 4.1 4.12 4.2 4.23 4.1 4.1 92,748,000 381,244,960 -26,875,950 METRO PAC INV 4.01 4.13 4.2 4.2 4 4.01 85,000 350,450 PACIFICA HLDG PRIME MEDIA 0.88 0.91 0.93 0.94 0.83 0.91 541,000 476,880 1.15 1.2 1.17 1.17 1.15 1.15 150,000 173,150 56,350.00 SOLID GROUP 271 287 288 288 271.2 287 330 91,244 SYNERGY GRID SM INVESTMENTS 970 981 1,011 1,023 970 970 1,203,935 1,174,993,270 -506,175,032.50 SAN MIGUEL CORP 127.8 128 127 130 126.9 128 138,190 17,698,274 -910,329 0.7 0.71 0.71 0.71 0.7 0.7 279,000 197,890 -7,610 SOC RESOURCES 141.1 142.9 143 143 140.5 142.9 620 87,578 TOP FRONTIER WELLEX INDUS 0.223 0.232 0.224 0.232 0.222 0.232 880,000 201,920 0.17 0.172 0.163 0.175 0.163 0.17 2,340,000 389,840 ZEUS HLDG

PROPERTY ARTHALAND CORP 0.65 0.66 0.66 0.66 0.64 0.65 1,240,000 805,880 AYALA LAND 37.65 38 37.7 38 36.7 38 41,245,100 1,557,528,935 -46,190,930 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.24 1.2 1.22 619,000 749,870 337,400 ARANETA PROP 27.35 27.4 27.25 27.5 27.15 27.35 844,500 23,099,440 8,483,000 AREIT RT BELLE CORP 1.6 1.62 1.6 1.62 1.6 1.6 101,000 162,000 -9,600 A BROWN 0.86 0.87 0.87 0.88 0.86 0.86 1,581,000 1,377,810 0.8 0.81 0.82 0.83 0.8 0.81 51,000 41,380 CITYLAND DEVT CROWN EQUITIES 0.151 0.154 0.158 0.158 0.152 0.154 2,710,000 417,240 CEBU HLDG 6.08 6.1 6.08 6.1 6.08 6.1 2,200 13,378 4.99 5 4.94 4.99 1,806,000 8,997,170 -4,990 CEB LANDMASTERS 4.99 5 0.445 0.455 0.465 0.465 0.445 0.455 18,350,000 8,275,350 222,400 CENTURY PROP CYBER BAY 0.35 0.355 0.355 0.355 0.35 0.355 800,000 282,950 DOUBLEDRAGON 14.64 14.7 14.6 14.88 14.52 14.7 3,462,700 50,944,642 -1,923,262 5.98 5.99 5.88 6 5.88 5.99 195,900 1,165,045 DM WENCESLAO EMPIRE EAST 0.325 0.33 0.33 0.33 0.315 0.33 840,000 272,000 EVER GOTESCO 0.084 0.087 0.085 0.087 0.085 0.085 270,000 23,190 FILINVEST LAND 1.1 1.14 1.11 1.14 1.09 1.14 34,650,000 39,050,410 29,425,930 0.89 0.9 0.89 0.9 0.87 0.89 915,000 814,720 22,250 GLOBAL ESTATE 8990 HLDG 8.57 8.88 8.96 8.96 8.55 8.88 25,000 218,816 PHIL INFRADEV 1.62 1.63 1.64 1.68 1.56 1.63 2,535,000 4,081,390 74,740 0.73 0.74 0.7 0.74 0.7 0.74 241,000 171,370 21,900 CITY AND LAND 3.83 3.85 3.76 3.83 3.7 3.83 34,894,000 133,028,090 -2,543,800 MEGAWORLD MRC ALLIED 0.53 0.54 0.54 0.54 0.51 0.54 86,272,000 45,480,090 -1,061,820 PHIL ESTATES 0.425 0.43 0.415 0.43 0.415 0.43 250,000 105,050 1.36 1.37 1.39 1.39 1.35 1.37 340,000 460,350 PRIMEX CORP ROBINSONS LAND 16.62 16.98 16.82 17.02 16.52 16.62 167,398,500 2,786,814,146 -784,467,398 PHIL REALTY 0.27 0.28 0.285 0.285 0.265 0.28 2,690,000 722,450 -15,900 1.55 1.57 1.55 1.58 1.55 1.55 117,000 181,380 ROCKWELL SHANG PROP 2.73 2.74 2.71 2.74 2.71 2.74 90,000 244,940 -81,900 STA LUCIA LAND 2.03 2.08 2.05 2.1 2.02 2.08 495,000 1,020,020 SM PRIME HLDG 36 36.2 36.2 36.75 35.65 36 64,400,700 2,317,549,535 -230,999,175 4.73 4.85 4.9 4.9 4.7 4.75 88,000 421,180 9,520 VISTAMALLS 1.68 1.71 1.67 1.71 1.63 1.71 3,757,000 6,272,240 8,250 SUNTRUST HOME VISTA LAND 4.54 4.75 4.42 4.75 4.4 4.75 9,619,000 44,860,120 15,124,930

SERVICES ABS CBN 11.78 11.86 12.14 12.14 11.46 11.86 248,000 2,913,670 GMA NETWORK 5.7 5.72 5.63 5.73 5.63 5.72 313,200 1,778,926 12.8 13.18 12 14 12 13.2 10,500 134,450 MLA BRDCASTING GLOBE TELECOM 1,948 1,950 2,000 2,014 1,948 1,948 532,510 1,041,018,245 -250,359,915 PLDT 1,314 1,320 1,296 1,320 1,296 1,314 385,735 505,293,075 -46,933,245 APOLLO GLOBAL 0.051 0.052 0.053 0.053 0.051 0.052 56,490,000 2,890,480 -6,120 15.52 15.9 15.9 15.9 15.34 15.9 3,768,600 58,802,202 -6,172,926 CONVERGE 4.38 4.45 4.22 4.47 4.21 4.38 131,000 568,010 -88,040 DFNN INC DITO CME HLDG 6.34 6.35 6.25 6.4 6.23 6.35 11,292,700 71,560,552 -1,025,125 1.38 1.4 1.38 1.38 1.38 1.38 4,000 5,520 IMPERIAL ISLAND INFO 0.115 0.117 0.12 0.12 0.115 0.117 2,080,000 241,190 JACKSTONES 1.83 1.89 1.97 1.97 1.79 1.9 212,000 392,000 NOW CORP 4.36 4.37 4.32 4.43 4.27 4.37 5,052,000 22,054,980 3,810,320 0.295 0.3 0.305 0.305 0.295 0.3 6,900,000 2,065,400 TRANSPACIFIC BR PHILWEB 2.93 2.94 2.95 2.95 2.88 2.93 720,000 2,090,300 142,190 2GO GROUP 9.16 9.2 9.18 9.2 9.15 9.2 42,200 387,202 CHELSEA 5.35 5.36 5.37 5.4 5.31 5.35 1,370,500 7,335,880 -442,968.00 46.95 47 48.25 48.5 45 47 1,245,600 59,102,725 -16,460,755 CEBU AIR INTL CONTAINER 116.6 116.8 117 117 115.1 116.8 5,251,080 611,848,877 -201,191,768 LBC EXPRESS 15.5 15.7 15.88 15.88 15.7 15.7 1,100 17,326 0.98 1.04 1.04 1.04 0.98 0.98 81,000 79,440 LORENZO SHIPPNG MACROASIA 8.15 8.16 7.6 8.2 7.2 8.15 11,153,700 87,204,245 -732,371 METROALLIANCE A 2.14 2.19 2.14 2.2 2.13 2.14 573,000 1,238,270 METROALLIANCE B 2.14 2.35 2.08 2.17 2.08 2.16 18,000 38,720 7 7.29 7.25 7.57 7 7.29 104,100 748,139 10,890 PAL HLDG 1.65 1.67 1.65 1.69 1.6 1.67 3,009,000 4,934,080 389,320 HARBOR STAR ACESITE HOTEL 1.4 1.42 1.42 1.42 1.42 1.42 200,000 284,000 0.038 0.039 0.037 0.04 0.036 0.039 250,300,000 9,683,900 590,900 BOULEVARD HLDG 1.73 1.81 1.82 1.82 1.82 1.82 5,000 9,100 DISCOVERY WORLD WATERFRONT 0.66 0.67 0.63 0.68 0.63 0.67 12,601,000 8,235,820 20,580 IPEOPLE 9 9.17 9.17 9.17 8.5 9 128,400 1,152,054 1,069,934 0.405 0.41 0.41 0.41 0.405 0.41 6,880,000 2,789,550 -324,400 STI HLDG 4.43 4.5 4.57 4.57 4.38 4.5 208,000 921,840 BERJAYA BLOOMBERRY 8.6 8.9 8.8 8.9 8.55 8.9 6,615,400 58,548,117 19,899,655 2.09 2.1 2.06 2.09 2 2.09 218,000 440,830 PACIFIC ONLINE LEISURE AND RES 1.85 1.86 1.86 1.92 1.83 1.85 415,000 769,720 18,400 PH RESORTS GRP 3.02 3.03 3 3.06 2.94 3.03 11,761,000 35,296,080 -3,750 PREMIUM LEISURE 0.415 0.42 0.41 0.42 0.405 0.415 11,960,000 4,920,650 143,150 6.9 6.95 6.71 6.95 6.71 6.95 4,200 28,914 PHIL RACING ALLHOME 8.12 8.52 8.1 8.52 8 8.52 2,570,300 21,703,758 16,116,759 METRO RETAIL 1.63 1.64 1.57 1.63 1.57 1.63 2,186,000 3,526,090 35,640 PUREGOLD 42.1 42.15 43 43 42.05 42.15 2,900,700 122,312,775 -35,131,360 67.6 68 68 68.15 67.45 68 298,200 20,244,185 1,192,387.00 ROBINSONS RTL PHIL SEVEN CORP 108.8 109 109.9 110 109 109 7,100 776,068 -673,397 SSI GROUP 1.71 1.72 1.71 1.74 1.65 1.72 6,915,000 11,725,440 -2,971,490 17.7 18 16.8 18 16.7 18 6,705,100 117,509,892 67,488,804 WILCON DEPOT 0.385 0.4 0.39 0.4 0.39 0.4 920,000 361,450 APC GROUP EASYCALL 7.6 7.77 7.77 7.8 7.51 7.77 28,800 220,699 GOLDEN BRIA 430 448 425 449 425 448 2,275,810 978,678,250 -215,000 4.4 4.8 4.5 4.5 4.35 4.35 20,000 88,450 IPM HLDG PAXYS 2.26 2.34 2.34 2.49 2.26 2.26 50,000 118,560 PRMIERE HORIZON 0.7 0.71 0.68 0.72 0.66 0.7 85,152,000 59,004,720 504,700 4.98 5 5.2 5.2 4.98 4.98 48,900 246,560 12,500 SBS PHIL CORP

MINING & OIL

ATOK 9.08 9.14 8.95 9.15 8.95 9.14 40,500 369,213 1.79 1.8 1.76 1.8 1.73 1.79 15,005,000 26,590,590 -314,390 APEX MINING 0.0009 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.0009 0.001 2,623,000,000 2,602,700 75,200 ABRA MINING ATLAS MINING 5.5 5.54 5.4 5.6 5.4 5.5 395,000 2,173,975 -16,200 COAL ASIA HLDG 0.305 0.31 0.34 0.35 0.305 0.31 17,650,000 5,820,700 2.4 2.48 2.48 2.49 2.26 2.4 216,000 524,600 48,000 CENTURY PEAK 8.43 8.51 8.51 8.51 8.35 8.51 13,900 117,473 DIZON MINES FERRONICKEL 2.09 2.1 1.99 2.17 1.96 2.1 11,441,000 23,638,770 -2,625,710 0.26 0.265 0.26 0.265 0.255 0.26 90,000 23,250 GEOGRACE LEPANTO A 0.156 0.157 0.145 0.157 0.145 0.156 68,180,000 10,344,570 LEPANTO B 0.154 0.155 0.145 0.155 0.145 0.154 4,350,000 659,280 MANILA MINING B 0.0099 0.01 0.011 0.011 0.01 0.01 24,900,000 260,100 1.26 1.27 1.35 1.39 1.26 1.27 16,051,000 21,167,800 -406,340 MARCVENTURES 2.89 2.9 2.83 3 2.83 2.89 959,000 2,790,660 28,900 NIHAO NICKEL ASIA 4.55 4.56 4.6 4.63 4.52 4.55 6,229,000 28,328,050 15,114,950 OMICO CORP 0.37 0.385 0.37 0.37 0.37 0.37 180,000 66,600 0.69 0.71 0.71 0.73 0.69 0.72 3,862,000 2,715,250 ORNTL PENINSULA PX MINING 4.7 4.76 4.66 4.8 4.57 4.7 1,773,000 8,295,370 424,970 SEMIRARA MINING 12.38 12.4 12.16 12.48 12.16 12.4 3,940,900 48,853,222 21,707,920 0.0051 0.0053 0.0051 0.0052 0.0051 0.0052 13,000,000 67,100 UNITED PARAGON ACE ENEXOR 8.1 8.15 8.02 8.22 7.85 8.1 256,300 2,069,151 PHILODRILL 0.0081 0.0084 0.0082 0.0084 0.0081 0.0082 57,000,000 468,200 PXP ENERGY 12.96 12.98 12.22 13.12 12.2 12.98 5,254,700 67,449,770 -2,312,560

PREFFERED HOUSE PREF A 100 101.2 100.2 100.2 100 100.2 1,600 160,120 AC PREF B1 513 515 515 515 515 515 500 257,500 500 502 510 510 499.2 502 1,240 619,560 AC PREF B2R CPG PREF A 101.6 102 102 102 102 102 5,000 510,000 DD PREF 101 103 101 101 101 101 9,380 947,380 GTCAP PREF B 1,029 1,032 1,029 1,029 1,029 1,029 550 565,950 100.6 100.9 101 101 101 101 2,000 202,000 MWIDE PREF MWIDE PREF 2B 100 100.9 101 101 101 101 9,630 972,630 PNX PREF 3B 100.7 105 102 105.4 100.6 105.4 4,080 412,866 992 997 994 997 993 997 1,290 1,282,210 59,580 PNX PREF 4 1,020 1,035 1,035 1,035 1,035 1,035 50 51,750 PCOR PREF 2B PCOR PREF 3A 1,067 1,068 1,067 1,068 1,067 1,068 5,010 5,345,680 SFI PREF 1.6 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6 6,000 9,600 78.15 78.4 78 78.4 78 78.4 11,690 912,231 -830,700 SMC PREF 2C 75.75 76 76 76 75.75 75.75 8,150 617,496.50 SMC PREF 2E SMC PREF 2F 77.6 78.75 77.55 77.55 77.55 77.55 3,000 232,650 SMC PREF 2G 75.85 76 76 76 76 76 1,850 140,600 76.1 76.2 76.1 76.2 76.1 76.1 22,100 1,681,885 SMC PREF 2J

PHIL. DEPOSITARY RECEIPTS ABS HLDG PDR 11.7 12.02 11.9 11.9 11.5 11.7 170,000 1,990,686 140,800 GMA HLDG PDR 5.46 5.49 5.5 5.5 5.46 5.46 103,700 567,980 129,130

WARRANTS LR WARRANT 1.01 1.03 1 1.05 1 1.03 212,000 214,240 -

SMALL & MEDIUM ENTERPRISES ALTUS PROP 14.92 14.96 14.48 15 14.24 14.92 485,200 7,153,596 -66,222 ITALPINAS 3.01 3.02 2.88 3.05 2.81 3.01 7,787,000 22,812,690 72,400 6.13 6.15 6.1 6.15 5.86 6.15 56,400 340,572 KEPWEALTH MAKATI FINANCE 2.17 2.45 2.17 2.17 2.17 2.17 1,000 2,170 MERRYMART 6 6.01 5.9 6.02 5.7 6.01 37,206,100 221,428,703 -5,815,386

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FIRST METRO ETF 103.1 103.3 104.7 104.7 103 103.1 32,020 3,310,142 67,214

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DOF urged to OK proposed budget of PSALM for 2021

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By Lenie Lectura

@llectura

LAWMAKER has appealed to the Department of Finance (DOF) to approve the budget request of the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp.

(PSALM) to unburden consumers who are already reeling from electricity and fuel price hikes.

“By allocating an amount lower than what is needed by PSALM to pay SCC [Stranded Contract Cost] and SD [Stranded debt] and anticipated shortfalls, it may lead to the increase of PSALM’s debts and even possible revival of the Universal Charges (UCs) for SCC and SD once the P208 billion allocated amount is utilized—a situation which is inimical to the intent of the Mu-

rang Kuryente Act,” Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chair of the Senate Committee on Energy, said in his November 25 letter to Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III. During the October 20 budget hearing conducted by the Senate Committee on Finance, only P8 billion out of the P46-billion proposed budget of PSALM for 2021 was allocated by the DOF for the

STOCK-MARKET OUTLOOK LAST WEEK

SHARE prices fell last week, with the main index falling below the 6,800-point level as most stocks were sold down due to the MSCI rebalancing which took effect at the end of November.

The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) fell 378.33 points to close at 6,791.46.

The main index was down almost all week, except on Monday when it closed slightly higher, touching the 7,200-point level during the day’s trade.

It went south starting on Tuesday, with the PSEi holding on to the 7,000-point level on Wednesday.

Foreign investors sold down local shares all week long and were net sellers at P7.82 billion.

Average daily value of trade was huge at P14.37 billion, with Friday having the biggest value for the week at P27.36 billion.

All other subindices went down with the exception of the Mining and Oil index that gained 285.98 points to close at 8,475.40 points. The broader All Shares index lost 119.11 to 4,100.28, the Financials index fell 2.66 to 1,427.29, the Industrial index declined 319.18 to 8,950.75, the Holding Firms index plunged 474.05 to 6,931.07, the Property index shed 208.69 to 3,411.02 and the Services index was down 57.56 to 1,500.21.

THIS WEEK

SHARE prices may recover this week as investors may take this opportunity to take their respective positions ahead of the so-called Santa Clause rally, or the year-end rise in prices.

It will be a four-day trading week since November 30 is a public holiday.

“Foreign funds continued to flock back to regions which they believe would be the first ones to receive the vaccine upon mass production,” Luis Limlingan, managing director at Regina Capital and Development Corp. said.

Sentiments, however, are improving after over 30 private companies have partnered with the Philippine government and British drug maker AstraZeneca to procure 2.6 million Covid-19 vaccine doses.

AstraZeneca has a zero-profit program in 2021, which means the vaccines are priced as low as possible. The vaccine is expected to cost around P500 ($10) for two doses and will be made available to the government’s priority sectors.

Broker 2TradeAsia, meanwhile, said most investors are now looking at next year’s prospects, as 2020 is almost over.

It said the government’s tax reform effort will be the primary point of discussion for 2021, which is important to many firms as this involves the lowering of minimum corporate income tax. It also includes also the provision on the net operating loss carry over extension, which is intended for the small and medium enterprises.

“Outside of the CREATE [Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises] bill, the Senate also passed the P4.25 trillion 2021 budget, relieving investors of 2019 delay repeat,” it said.

“Needless to say, the lining is becoming more visible, and it is silver.”

The broker advised investors to trade the range with immediate support for the PSEi at 6,650 points and resistance at 7,000 points.

STOCK PICKS

BROKER Regina Capital advised to take position on the stock of International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) after its prices fell last week.

“Surprisingly, the plunge happened without even breaking past its support level at P116.46. Technical indicators turn bearish on the stock. It’s hard to say whether the bears might continue to champion ICTSI, as some investors are highly likely to be waiting at the bottom,” it said.

ICTSI shares closed Friday at P116.80 per share.

Meanwhile, it advised to trade the range on the stock of Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co. (MBT) as its stock was also heavily beaten during last week’s trade.

“It’s good to note that, so far, MBT hasn’t touched its support at P46.49 which is also its 260-day moving average. By the looks of the chart, the bulls might wait until (this) week before jumping aboard the stock,” it said.

Metrobank shares closed last week at P47.95 per share last week. VG Cabuag

implementation of the Murang Kuryente Act (MKA). This means that PSALM will have to borrow P38 billion and incur a borrowing cost of P5.45 billion.

“May I remind your good office that the intent of the Murang Kuryente Act is for the P208 billion allocated amount to cover the SCC, SD and all anticipated shortfalls so no other UC petitions will be filed in the future,” said Gatchalian in his letter.

He said P208 billion of the proceeds of the government’s share from the Malampaya fund shall be utilized for the payment of SCC and SD transferred to and assumed by the PSALM, including all anticipated shortfalls, pursuant to Section 49 of Republic Act 9136 or the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001.

Gatchalian pointed out that any additional costs would be passed on to the taxpayers because PSALM will resort to borrowings. “As such, I would like to implore your good office in the next and future bud-

MUTUAL FUNDS

get cycles to approve the amounts needed by PSALM from the P208 billion allocated amount to fulfill the intent of the law all for the benefit of the consumers.”

The MK A spares consumers from UC-SCC and UCSD in their electricity bills. But each household is still paying P0.0428 per kilowatt hour for UCSD that should be removed, according to the senator.

The stranded contract costs are the excess of the contracted cost of electricity under eligible independent power producer contracts over the actual selling price of the contracted energy output.

Stranded debts are those unpaid financial obligations of the National Power Corp. that have not been liquidated by the proceeds from the sales and privatization of its assets.

“Consumers will not see it in their electricity bill. But indirectly, it’s also the taxpayers who will be paying an additional P5.45 billion through one way or the other. You can always argue that it’s one pocket to the other,” Gatchalian said.

November 27, 2020

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PER SHARE RETURN* RETURN STOCK FUNDS ALFM GROWTH FUND, INC. -A 221.61 -11.09% -8.23% -2.41% -12% ATRAM ALPHA OPPORTUNITY FUND, INC. -A 1.2719 -13.4% -7.29% 0.91% -7.97% ATRAM PHILIPPINE EQUITY OPPORTUNITY FUND, INC. -A 3.0705 -17.26% -11.93% -4.1% -16.52% CLIMBS SHARE CAPITAL EQUITY INVESTMENT FUND CORP. -A 0.7824 -11.61% -8.3% N.A. -12.87% FIRST METRO CONSUMER FUND ON MSCI PHILS. IMI, INC. -A 0.7411 -11.5% N.A. N.A. -12.74% FIRST METRO SAVE AND LEARN EQUITY FUND,INC. -A 4.8069 -8.5% -6.6% -2.36% -9.79% FIRST METRO SAVE AND LEARN PHILIPPINE INDEX FUND, INC. -A,4 0.745 -11.68% -8.76% N.A. -12.72% MBG EQUITY INVESTMENT FUND, INC. -A 94.92 -13.11% N.A. N.A. -8.04% PAMI EQUITY INDEX FUND, INC. -A 45.5107 -10.14% -6.08% -0.84% -11.25% PHILAM STRATEGIC GROWTH FUND, INC. -A 476.9 -9.58% -5.98% -1.47% -10.49% PHILEQUITY ALPHA ONE FUND, INC. -A,D,5 1.0445 N.A. N.A. N.A. 1.4% PHILEQUITY DIVIDEND YIELD FUND, INC. -A 1.1342 -11.23% -6.45% -0.97% -11.87% PHILEQUITY FUND, INC. -A 33.6203 -10.38% -5.98% -0.41% -11.29% PHILEQUITY MSCI PHILIPPINE INDEX FUND, INC. -A 0.8877 -11.26% N.A. N.A. -12.81% PHILEQUITY PSE INDEX FUND INC. -A 4.6522 -9.7% -5.7% -0.14% -10.94% PHILIPPINE STOCK INDEX FUND CORP. -A 778.23 -9.5% -5.6% -0.25% -10.75% SOLDIVO STRATEGIC GROWTH FUND, INC. -A 0.709 -17.5% -9.15% -4.06% -16.73% -1.88% -16.15% SUN LIFE PROSPERITY PHILIPPINE EQUITY FUND, INC. -A 3.5295 -15.11% -7.8% SUN LIFE PROSPERITY PHILIPPINE STOCK INDEX FUND, INC. -A 0.8911 -9.77% -5.92% -0.35% -10.96% UNITED FUND, INC. -A 3.2317 -10.44% -5.11% 0.22% -11.54% EXCHANGE TRADED FUND FIRST METRO PHIL. EQUITY EXCHANGE TRADED FUND, INC. -A,C 104.5473 -9.33% -5.31% 0.53% -10.61% PRIMARILY INVESTED IN FOREIGN CURRENCY SECURITIES ATRAM ASIAPLUS EQUITY FUND, INC. -B $1.168 17.66% 1.02% 5.28% 13.57% SUN LIFE PROSPERITY WORLD VOYAGER FUND, INC. -A $1.6077 19.88% 8.82% N.A. 16.61% BALANCED FUNDS PRIMARILY INVESTED IN PESO SECURITIES ATRAM DYNAMIC ALLOCATION FUND, INC. -A 1.6374 4.53% -3.7% -1.38% 4.77% ATRAM PHILIPPINE BALANCED FUND, INC. -A 2.2264 1.38% -2.79% 0.45% 2.08% FIRST METRO SAVE AND LEARN BALANCED FUND INC. -A 2.5818 -0.75% -1.9% -1.25% -1.89% FIRST METRO SAVE AND LEARN F.O.C.C.U.S. DYNAMIC FUND, INC. -A,1 0.1952 -14.76% N.A. N.A. -14.57% NCM MUTUAL FUND OF THE PHILS., INC. -A 1.9439 -0.28% -0.26% 1.53% -0.9% PAMI HORIZON FUND, INC. -A 3.7234 -0.85% -1.21% 0.71% -1.73% PHILAM FUND, INC. -A 16.6514 -0.87% -1.28% 0.63% -1.82% SOLIDARITAS FUND, INC. -A 2.0582 -2.79% -2.46% 0.4% -3.01% SUN LIFE OF CANADA PROSPERITY BALANCED FUND, INC. -A 3.5136 -7.93% -3.83% -0.6% -9.06% SUN LIFE PROSPERITY ACHIEVER FUND 2028, INC. -A,D 1.0046 0.2% N.A. N.A. -1.09% SUN LIFE PROSPERITY ACHIEVER FUND 2038, INC. -A,D 0.9287 -5.49% N.A. N.A. -6.79% SUN LIFE PROSPERITY ACHIEVER FUND 2048, INC. -A,D 0.9113 -6.99% N.A. N.A. -8.25% SUN LIFE PROSPERITY DYNAMIC FUND, INC. -A 0.8703 -9.85% -4.69% -1.41% -10.72% PRIMARILY INVESTED IN FOREIGN CURRENCY SECURITIES 2.66% 1.99% 2.46% COCOLIFE DOLLAR FUND BUILDER, INC. -A $0.03914 2.57% PAMI ASIA BALANCED FUND, INC. -B $1.1232 11.94% 1.92% 4.54% 10.99% SUN LIFE PROSPERITY DOLLAR ADVANTAGE FUND, INC. -A $4.3591 13.7% 6.45% 6.71% 11.47% SUN LIFE PROSPERITY DOLLAR WELLSPRING FUND, INC. -A,3 $1.1994 7.62% 3.54% N.A. 6.26% BOND FUNDS PRIMARILY INVESTED IN PESO SECURITIES ALFM PESO BOND FUND, INC. -A 369.86 3.77% 3.21% 2.76% 3.33% ATRAM CORPORATE BOND FUND, INC. -A 1.8978 -1.53% 0.14% 0% -0.22% COCOLIFE FIXED INCOME FUND, INC. -A 3.2092 3.22% 4.61% 4.86% 2.93% EKKLESIA MUTUAL FUND INC. -A 2.2915 3.59% 2.87% 2.36% 3.06% FIRST METRO SAVE AND LEARN FIXED INCOME FUND,INC. -A 2.4488 4.5% 3.41% 2.08% 3.8% PHILAM BOND FUND, INC. -A 4.6281 6.79% 4.4% 3.07% 5.84% PHILAM MANAGED INCOME FUND, INC. -A,6 1.3163 5.4% 4.41% 2.55% 4.74% PHILEQUITY PESO BOND FUND, INC. -A 3.9774 5.83% 4.4% 2.83% 4.99% SOLDIVO BOND FUND, INC. -A 1.0363 8.67% 3.89% 2.53% 7.47% SUN LIFE OF CANADA PROSPERITY BOND FUND, INC. -A 3.1892 5.09% 4.7% 3.47% 3.69% SUN LIFE PROSPERITY GS FUND, INC. -A 1.7442 4.05% 3.98% 2.82% 2.53% PRIMARILY INVESTED IN FOREIGN CURRENCY SECURITIES ALFM DOLLAR BOND FUND, INC. -A $482.27 3.32% 2.68% 2.92% 2.97% ALFM EURO BOND FUND, INC. -A Є218.54 -0.49% 0.79% 1.14% -0.57% ATRAM TOTAL RETURN DOLLAR BOND FUND, INC. -B $1.2677 5.35% 3.78% 2.96% 5.01% FIRST METRO SAVE AND LEARN DOLLAR BOND FUND, INC. -A $0.0265 2.71% 1.96% 1.75% 2.71% $1.0918 PAMI GLOBAL BOND FUND, INC -B -0.31% 0.32% 0.85% -0.16% PHILAM DOLLAR BOND FUND, INC. -A $2.5268 5.44% 3.99% 3.63% 5.13% PHILEQUITY DOLLAR INCOME FUND INC. -A $0.0620814 2.96% 2.61% 2.29% 2.95% SUN LIFE PROSPERITY DOLLAR ABUNDANCE FUND, INC. -A $3.2165 1.58% 2.15% 2.63% 1.3% MONEY MARKET FUNDS PRIMARILY INVESTED IN PESO SECURITIES ALFM MONEY MARKET FUND, INC. -A 129.53 3.29% 3.35% 2.54% 2.94% FIRST METRO SAVE AND LEARN MONEY MARKET FUND, INC. -A 1.047 1.84% N.A. N.A. 2.02% SUN LIFE PROSPERITY MONEY MARKET FUND, INC. -A 1.2944 2.64% 3% 2.62% 2.32% PRIMARILY INVESTED IN FOREIGN CURRENCY SECURITIES SUN LIFE PROSPERITY DOLLAR STARTER FUND, INC. -A $1.0515 1.54% 1.72% N.A. 1.27% FEEDER FUNDS PRIMARILY INVESTED IN PESO SECURITIES SUN LIFE PROSPERITY WORLD EQUITY INDEX FEEDER FUND, INC. -A,D,7 1.0923 N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. PRIMARILY INVESTED IN FOREIGN CURRENCY SECURITIES ALFM GLOBAL MULTI-ASSET INCOME FUND INC. -B,D,2 $0.97 -2.02% N.A. N.A. -2.02%

A - NAVPS AS OF THE PREVIOUS BANKING DAY. B - NAVPS AS OF TWO BANKING DAYS AGO. C - LISTED IN THE PSE. D - IN NET ASSET VALUE PER UNIT (NAVPU).

1 - LAUNCH DATE IS SEPTEMBER 28, 2019. 2 - LAUNCH DATE IS NOVEMBER 15, 2019. 3 - ADJUSTED DUE TO STOCK DIVIDEND ISSUANCE LAST OCTOBER 9, 2019.

4 - RENAMING WAS APPROVED BY THE SEC LAST OCTOBER 12, 2018 (FORMERLY, ONE WEALTHY NATION FUND, INC.). 5 - LAUNCH DATE IS DECEMBER 09, 2019.

6 - RE-CLASSIFIED INTO A BOND FUND STARTING FEBRUARY 21, 2020 (FORMERLY A MONEY MARKET FUND). 7 - LAUNCH DATE IS JULY 6, 2020.

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Fintech group sees PHL as Asia-Pacific digital hub

By Tyrone Jasper C. Piad @Tyronepiad

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financial technology (fintech) group said the Philippines is establishing itself as a digital hub in the Asia-Pacific after monetary authorities released an online banking framework.

The FintechAlliance.ph, in a recent statement, welcomed the approval of the digital bank licensing regulations by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

“Coupled with the recently released draft on the guidelines on open finance framework and a comprehensive digital payments transformation roadmap, the Philippines is poised as an emerging digital hub in the Asia-Pacific region,” FintechAlliance.ph Chairman Angelito M. Villanueva said.

Earlier, the Central Bank introduced a digital road map, which aims to make at least 50 percent of total retail payment transactions be accomplished online by 2023.

In addition, it also targets 70 percent of adult Filipinos to be financially included in the same period.

Last week, the Monetary Board green-lighted the recognition of a digital bank as a new bank category, which is separate and distinct from other current classifications. It is defined as a bank with no physical branches, offering financial products and services via digital platforms.

“Digital banks will play an important role in the digital financial ecosystem,” BSP Governor Benjamin E. Diokno said in an earlier statement. “We see these banks as additional partners in further promoting market efficiencies and expanding access of Filipinos to a broad range of financial services.”

Considering the cybersecurity and money laundering risks, the BSP said that digital banks would be subject to the same applicable requirements, which are in proportion to their business and risk profile.

The Central Bank noted that the digital banks also need to have sound digital governance, secure technology infrastructure and effective data management strategy and practices.

The framework notes that the digital bank’s principal place of business—housing the offices of management and other support operations—should be in the Philippines.

In addition, the neo-banks are also allowed to tap cash agents and other qualified service providers subject to existing regulations to complement the innovative delivery of financial services.

The digital banking framework came at a time when more foreign fintech players and conventional banks are beefing up their online offering, FintechAlliance.ph said.

“We are seeing more foreign technology players coming in and traditional banks levelling up to be at par with the increasing competition towards creating its own hybrid neo-banks,” Villanueva said.

The fintech group said that more developments in the digital financial service sector benefit customers the most, providing them a wider array of options.

“At the end of the day, it is all about delivery of awesome customer experience and unique value proposition,” it added.

According to the Philippines Fintech Report 2020, there are currently over 190 fintech players in the country, mostly offering services in lending, payments, digital wallets, and remittances.

EXIT A man walks past a branch of HSBC Holdings Plc. The financial intermediary is considering

an exit from US retail banking, according to a report by the Financial Times. In the coming weeks, senior managers will outline the plan to the bank’s board, the newspaper said, citing two unidentified people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg News

PBCom mobile app gains traction amid pandemic

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hilippine Bank of Communications (PBCom) has formed its digital-first customer base after introducing a mobile application amid the lockdown measures due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The PBCOMobile app, which was launched in end-March this year, has reached over 13,000 customers in November, the bank said.

Through the app, the bank said that even non-PBCOM customers were able to immediately open a savings account.

In the app, the customers can deposit checks to their accounts and request a PBCOMobile Mastercard Debit card. The card will be delivered directly to them and will also be linked, activated and controlled securely from the app.

The app also allows online fund transfers to other banks via InstaPay, prepaid reloading, bills payments and account maintenance.

“The PBCOMobile Concierge feature can also be used to request account related transactions (within reason) via the app that even the bank has not yet thought of,” the

bank said. “This is one way digital first customers can help enhance or redesign the app going forward. If enough customers request certain transactions, they can be added to the app later on.”

Amid the digital shift, PBCOM said the number of its customers enrolled in online banking channels soared by over 40 percent during the lockdown period.

The bank’s digital banking channels are available for both retail and corporate customers via the web and mobile phones. Volume transactions surged by over 230 percent during the same period.

In the first nine months, PBCOM saw its net income nearly grow twofold to P1.51 billion from P759.68 million, thanks to higher net interest income for the period.

The bank has a total assets and capitalization of P105.98 billion and P14.36 billion, respectively, as of end-September. For the period, its capital adequacy ratio and common equity tier 1 ratio stood at 18.05 percent and 15.24 percent, respectively.

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Simplified tax base for wines seen to reduce govt revenue

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By Bernadette D. Nicolas

@BNicolasBM

he simplification of the tax base of excise tax for wine products, especially for sparkling wine, may reduce government’s revenue collection, state-run National Tax Research Center (NTRC) said.

In a research journal, the NTRC said Republic Act (RA) 11467 “simplified” the excise tax rates for wines as it imposed a specific tax rate of P50 per liter on all types of wine regardless of the net retail price (NRP).

“The change on wine classifications may decrease the collection, especially for sparkling wines, which was previously taxed at P316.34 and P885.73,” the NTRC said in the journal titled “Tax Implications of RA Nos. 11346 and 11467.”

Based on the data from NTRC, the specific tax rate for sparkling wines and/or champagnes with an NRP (excluding excise tax and value added tax or VAT) of P500 or less per 750 milliliter bottle was slashed by

532.68 percent to P50 from P316.34 in 2019 under the old law, RA 10351.

As for sparkling wine and/or champagne with an NRP of more than P500, regardless of proof, the excise tax rate was also reduced by a staggering 1,671.46 percent to P50 from P885.73 previously.

The excise tax rate for still wines and carbonated wines containing more than 14 percent of alcohol but not more than 25 percent was also cut to P50 from P75.93.

However, the excise tax rate for still wine and carbonated wine containing 14 percent of alcohol by volume or less also went up to P50 from P37.96 under the previous law.

Nonetheless, RA 11467 man-

dated that the specific tax per liter amounting to P50 for wines shall be increased by 6 percent effective January 1, 2021 and every year thereafter.

Apart from wines, the same law also simplified the excise tax structure for fermented liquors.

Despite the removal of the classification of fermented liquors based on where these are produced, the NTRC said they are expecting an increase in collection due to the imposition of a higher specific tax rate to P35 from P25.42, specifically for fermented liquors regardless of the NRP. Meanwhile, fermented liquor brewed and sold at microbrewers or small establishments such as pubs and restaurants, regardless of the NRP are now levied with P35 excise tax rate, which is 1.23 percent down from P35.43 previously.

But the same law also imposed a P2 annual increase in specific tax rate for fermented liquors starting 2021 until it reaches P43 in 2024.

It will increase by six percent every year thereafter.

The same law also jacked up the specific tax rate for distilled spirits by 44.29 percent to P42 per proof liter this year. This will be followed by an additional P5 per proof liter from

2021 to 2023. Starting 2024, the additional specific tax rate will be at P7 per proof liter and will increase by 6 percent every year thereafter, effective January 1, 2025.

The law also increased the ad valorem tax on distilled spirits to 22 percent of the NRP (excluding excise tax and VAT) from 20 percent in 2019. RA 11467 also amended the allocation of internal revenues from alcohol products, heated tobacco products and vapor products wherein 60 percent of the collected revenues will go to the implementation of the Universal Health Care Law, 20 percent to Health Facilities Enhancement Program of the Department of Health (DOH) and the remaining 20 percent for the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals determined by the National Economic Development Authority.

The same also exempted from the VAT the sale or importation of prescription drugs and medicines for diabetes, high cholesterol, and hypertension beginning this year while the VAT exemption on the sale or importation of drugs and medicines for cancer, mental illness, tuberculosis, and kidney diseases will start on January 1, 2023, as provided in the list of approved drugs by the DOH.

DBP to raise ₧5B in bond sale for green projects

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he Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) is eyeing to raise at least P5 billion from a bond offering to finance green projects under its Sustainable Financing Framework.

The 2-year bonds carry an interest rate of 2.5 percent. The offer period started on November 24 and will end on December 4.

DBP President and Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel G. Herbosa said the proceeds of the offering will be allocated to fund renewable energy projects, green buildings, clean transportation, energy efficiency, pollution prevention and control and climate change adaptation projects, among others.

Apart from these, other projects

eligible for financing are affordable basic infrastructure and houses, initiatives promoting access to essential services, employment generation, food generation and socioeconomic advancement and empowerment.

“Even before the onset of the pandemic, we already planned to raise additional funds from our bond program to augment our funding requirements as DBP pushes to lend more to its priority sectors, especially in the wake of pandemic and the recent typhoons that have struck the country,” Herbosa said.

The bond offering is the second issuance from its P50-billion bond program, which is aimed at funding development projects in priority sectors.

Standard Chartered Bank was tapped to be the transaction’s issue manager. It, along with China Bank Capital Corp., was also the joint lead arrangers and bookrunners.

The selling agents are the DBP, Amalgamated Investment Bancorporation, China Bank Corp., China Bank Capital Corp. and Standard Chartered Bank.

Last year, DBP raked in P18.125 billion from sustainability bond issuance under the same bond program. Proceeds were allocated on project on economic inclusion; climate change mitigation and adaptation, natural resource conservation and pollution control and prevention and other social development initiatives.

“Our successful issuance of Sustainability Bonds last year has further strengthened our resolve to support endeavors that have an impact not only on communities but also on our environment,” Herbosa said.

DBP First Vice President for Corporate Finance Francis Nicolas M. Chua said that 83 percent of the proceeds were channeled to 15 sustainable and renewable energy projects.

The rest was for water supply and healthcare projects.

“Apart from offering a safe haven for investment especially during uncertain times, the bonds also provide the public an opportunity to partake in the larger goal of nation-building,” Chua said. Tyrone Jasper C. Piad

BDO waives remittance GSIS to release ₧3.3-B fees for typhoon cash aids cash gift to pensioners

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he remittance service unit of BDO Unibank Inc. is waiving charges on typhoon donations from overseas Filipinos to encourage more cash aid.

BDO Remit said in a recent statement that no remittance fees will be charged on these donations until December 31.

“Hopefully, with this [fee waiver], we can encourage more donations from our overseas Filipinos to those adversely affected by the recent typhoons,” BDO Senior Vice President and Remittance Head Genie T. Gloria said.

Several parts of the country were recently devastated by the onslaught of typhoons Quinta, Rolly and Ulysses. Many relief operations and donation drives are being mounted to help the disaster-stricken provinces.

Overseas Filipinos may transfer their donation for free via BDO Remit office abroad to BDO Foundation Inc. The BDO unit has nine subsidiary offices outside the country. In Asia, BDO Remit has offices in Macau, Hong Kong and Japan. It is also located in Daly City, US and in Toronto, Canada in North America.

In Europe, the BDO subsidiary has a presence in the United Kingdom.

Meanwhile, BDO Foundation, along with BDO Unibank and BDO Network Bank branches, has started delivering relief packages to families affected by typhoon Ulysses.

Earlier, it has provided relief foods to over 36,000 families hit by typhoons Pepito, Quinta and Rolly.

BDO Foundation has also already distributed relief packs to nearly 11,000 affected families in Albay, Camarines Sur and Catanduanes.

In addition, the foundation also sent relief packs to more than 14,000 families affected by typhoons Pepito and Quinta in Bulacan, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija and Quezon.

“The corporate citizenship initiative was made possible by officers of BDO and BDO Network Bank branches, who helped gather beneficiary information and identify barangays that needed assistance. Logistical support was provided by local government units and partner non-governmental organizations,” the bank said.

In the first nine months, BDO saw its net income drop by 48 percent to P16.6 billion because of higher provisions for potential credit loss.

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TATE pension fund Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) announced that it will start to release a total of P3.3 billion in Christmas cash gift to a total of 330,496 old-age and disability pensioners starting December 1.

“Every year, our pensioners look forward to receiving the cash gift which they call their Christmas bonus. Thus, we made sure that the cash gift will be credited to their electronic card (eCard) before Christmas this year to somehow relieve them of the additional financial expenses during the Christmas season,” GSIS President and General Manager Rolando L. Macasaet said.

Qualified pensioners who received a Christmas cash gift of P10,000 in 2019 will be granted an amount equivalent to their onemonth pension up to a maximum of P10,000. Pensioners whose 2019 Christmas cash gift was above P10,000 will similarly receive 1-month pension up to a maximum of P12,600. Pensioners who resumed their regular monthly pension after December 31, 2019, (after the 5-year guaranteed period) will be given one-month pension up to a maximum of P10,000.

Eligible to receive the Christmas cash gift are old-age and disability pensioners under Republic Act (RA) 8291, Presidential Decree 1146 and RA 660 who are receiving their regu-

lar monthly pensions and who are still living as of November 30, 2020.

Old-age and disability pensioners whose pensions were suspended before the Annual Pensioners Information Revalidation (Apir) requirement was temporarily lifted in March 2020 and are still on suspended status as of December 1, 2020 will also receive the cash gift, provided they activate their status with GSIS on or before 30 June 2021.

Not eligible for the Christmas cash gift are survivorship pensioners, dependent pensioners, pensioners under RA 7699 (Portability Law) and those receiving pro-rata pension.

New pensioners from 2016 to 2020 who availed of immediate pension under RA 8291 are also not yet entitled to receive the cash gift. They will start receiving their Christmas cash gift five years after their retirement date.

Those who availed of a 5-year lump sum and who will resume their regularly monthly pension after December 31, 2020 are also not eligible for the benefit.

Likewise, GSIS members who resigned or separated from government service before reaching 60 years old and who started receiving their regular monthly pension between 2016 and 2020 will only receive the cash gift five years after regularly receiving their pension.

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How to Actually Encourage Employee Accountability

By Ron Carucci

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ewer words in corporate vernacular induce a tighter wince than “accountability,” and for good reason. Companies and leaders have grappled with what it is and how to achieve it effectively for decades. Ask anyone if they look forward to their performance evaluation or periodic check-in with their boss, and most will give an emphatic “no.”

Data shows that 82 percent of managers acknowledge they have “limited to no” ability to hold others accountable successfully, and 91 percentof employees would say that “effectively holding others accountable” is one of their company’s top leadership-development needs.

Research also confirms how insignificant today’s accountability systems make employees feel. Gallup found that only 14 percent of employees feel their performance is managed in a way that motivates them, 26 percent get feedback less than once per year, 21 percent feel their performance metrics are within their control, and 40 percent feel as if their manager holds them accountable for goals they set.

Add to that the fact that 70 percent of employees feel their managers aren’t objective in how they evaluate their performance, and it comes as no surprise that 69% of employees don’t feel they’re living up to their potential at work.

T he f und amenta l problem with accountability is that it now involves little more than the process of accounting. The scorekeeping nature of this process yields a built-in negativity bias, where leaders reflexively hunt for shortfalls, and the tallying usually ends with a forced categorization—a

rating system of numbers or labels, sometimes stack-ranking employees against their peers.

Accountability processes are the formal and informal ways that leaders talk about, assess and affirm the contributions of those they lead and the improvements they can make to strengthen those contributions. They include everything from annual performance appraisals to routine check-ins with your boss. Even in the face of deeply flawed formal processes, leaders can ensure that their employees feel their work is honored while simultaneously embracing opportunities to improve. To make that experience commonplace, mere tweaks to the tallying processes of accountability won’t move the needle. Companies must dramatically redefine what it means for leaders to create a culture of accountability.

Based on my 30 years of observing leaders who do this well and through my research on accountability, I’ve identified three major shifts leaders need to make to ensure that the accountability experience dignifies employees’ work and challenges them to make greater achievements—without making them feel demeaned or insignificant.

Make dignity the foundation

Managers must understand the weight of their own judgments. A recent study of the brain shows how other people’s opinions of us influence our sense of self-efficacy. When leaders believe their role is to create conditions in which people make their best contributions—and genuinely enjoy doing so—the following core foundations of accountability improve: n Connections between leaders and direct reports deepen. Instead

of obligatory monthly or quarterly check-ins during which employees provide rote updates, conversations should be undergirded by a sense of purpose. Questions like, “What did you learn this month?” or “What do you feel most proud of?” stir employees’ eagerness to tell their stories of achievement and struggle.

n The quality of feedback and learning increases. When employees

believe their bosses are genuinely interested in their success, they feel less guarded and less inclined to hide their underperformance.

When bosses are committed to their employees’ success and are less focused on documentation, they feel comfortable offering feedback and coaching about underperformance.

Focus on fairness

When accountability systems are seen as fair, people are four times more likely to be honest (especially about their mistakes), act fairly toward others and serve the organization’s purpose instead of their own interests. Prioritizing fairness in our accountability processes allows two very important things to change.

First, it reestablishes the connection between contribution and contributor. For decades, in an attempt at creating fairness, conventional thinking has kept the evaluation of work separate from the evaluation of people.

This made sense when people were producing large volumes of the same output. But in a knowledge economy, people’s ideas, creativity, and analysis are direct reflections of who they are—the nature of today’s work makes accountability personal.

It becomes fair when managers acknowledge contributions as the fruit of the unique talents of their employees.

Second, focusing on fairness exposes biases within accountability systems. Plenty of research shows that organizations privilege certain groups via implicit biases within their accountability systems. Viewing these systems through the lens of fairness

prompts honest questions about how to change them. Who has access to prized opportunities?

What are the existing expectations about who will or won’t excel? Whose voices and ideas get included?

Questions like these reveal whether there’s equitable opportunity to succeed, regardless of one’s level of ability, and enable leaders to open up opportunities for people to shine with whatever talents they have. For example, a leader might broaden who gets to speak and present at meetings, or take a new approach to acknowledging traditionally privileged roles (like engineers at tech companies or marketers at branding companies) that levels the playing field for other types of contributions.

To demonstrate your commitment to fairness, ask those on your team—preferably anonymously—if they feel the playing field in your group is level, if they see some roles or people as privileged or if they view you as you having “favorites.” Even if your intentions are good, people may still feel like they don’t have an equitable chance for success.

Make restoration, not blame, the goal

People dread accountabilit y in their organizations. W hy?

Because when consequences are levied, they often feel shaming and harsh, despite cor porate rhetoric about learning from failures. The ref lexive response is to hide mistakes or point fingers elsewhere.

If leaders believed that falling short of a goal still had merit, it could radically alter how people treat their own—and others’— mistakes. To treat mistakes restoratively, leaders need humility, grace and patience. They must see any person’s arc of professional success as more than the sum total of any single assignment.

Leaders also need the humility to acknowledge their contribution to people’s failures. Did the person have the resources, skills, team support and realistic timelines to be successful?

We have a long way to go before accountability within organizations becomes a welcomed process that yields fair, actionable feedback and encourages employees to embrace the opportunity to improve their performance and expand their contributions. Making dignity, fairness and restoration foundational components of accountability systems is a powerful place to start.

Ron Carucci is a cofounder and managing partner at Navalent.

Transgender, gender-fluid, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming employees deserve better policies

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By Lily Zheng

e’re in the midst of a fundamental transformation in how society thinks about gender. With transgender people on the cover of magazines, prominent celebrities challenging gender norms in fashion and people who identify as neither men nor women becoming mainstream, the last few decades of cultural trends have brought new ideas about gender to the forefront.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the attitudes of millennials and Generation Z, who are more likely than their elders to know someone who uses gender-neutral pronouns and to embrace fluid and gendernonconforming fashion.

Despite this, our workplaces lag behind these demographic and cultural shifts. The National Center for Transgender Equality’s 2015 US Transgender Survey revealed that one in six respondents who had ever been employed reported being fired, denied a promotion, harassed or attacked because of their gender identity or expression. At Stanford University, Dr. Alison Fogarty and I analyzed similar stories of discrimination from dozens of people under the transgender umbrella. This group included transgender men and women, gender-fluid people, nonbinary people, cisgender but gendernonconforming men and women and

many others who challenged societal gender norms.

What became apparent throughout this research was that even organizations that have some understanding of “transgender issues” are poorly equipped to respond to gender-nonconforming employees.

In their efforts to create inclusive policies and practices for trans people, even progressive organizations can inadvertently entrench outdated and restric tive norms about gender.

The answer is bet ter polic y.

Through our research, we identified four ways company leaders can create policies that empower individual agency, make room for experiences outside of the gender binary and ensure access to resources and a higher quality of working life for people of all gender identities and expressions.

Interpret nondiscrimination policies in a way that’s actually effective

Existing policies that ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression are usually worded as well as they should be, but they’re rarely enforced in an actually protective way. Most organizations—including some of the most progressive companies—interpret this policy as, “If you identify as transgender, we will not discriminate against you.” This

interpretation requires transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people to out themselves for their own protection, exchanging their privacy for support. For example, gender transition policies often include companywide emails to announce an individual’s gender transition, as well as companywide trainings.

When training individuals on company policy, explicitly state that acting in accordance with nondiscrimination policies requires: n Reducing the amount of gender information collected, unless absolutely necessary n Not assuming individuals’ gender identities or pronouns n Respecting the pronouns individuals use for themselves n Providing opportunities for individual self-identification beyond the binary “man” and “woman” n Building gender-inclusive facilities, like bathrooms and locker rooms n De-gendering dress codes

Examine your hiring practices

Hiring practices were one specific place where we identified the systemic failure of inclusive policy. Hiring managers typically expect trans people to self-disclose during the hiring process. Attempts at trans inclusion tended to classify individuals as either “male” or “female” and didn’t make space for those in between or outside the binary, and they didn’t

address why such a question would be necessary in the first place.

Rethink dress codes

Policies that extend existing gendered policies (like dress codes) and access to facilities (like bathrooms and locker rooms) to cover trans employees inadvertently exclude nonbinary, gender-fluid and gender-nonconforming people. These policies were designed for a time where trans people could only receive workplace recognition if they sought to blend in with stereotypical ideas of what it means to be a man or a woman. Yet, as more people challenge the gender binary altogether, these policies lose their usefulness—not only for trans people, but also for cisgender people who don’t wish to wear the professional clothing typically expected of their gender.

More inclusive dress codes would remove gendered language and use greater specificity as to acceptable and unacceptable clothing, framed in terms of functionality (e.g., “that does not impede the ability to lift 50 pounds”) or legitimate business purposes (e.g., safety, easy identification of employees or branding). If disputes occur, these criteria can be the basis for a conversation about specific attire.

We found that formal dress codes or even informal (yet gendered) clothing expectations were an ex-

treme source of stress and conflict for gender-nonconforming people, who frequently challenged these expectations.

Make transition policies flexible

Workplace gender transition policies can force acknowledgment and support behind unnecessary timelines and milestones. For example, human resources may implement a three-step plan involving first coming out to a manager, then coming out to the team with the manager’s support and then finally coming out publicly to the entire company. Along these milestones, the individual may only be permitted to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity within the areas of the company they have come out to already.

The fact that timelines are the norm implies that organizations perceive a workplace transition as one-time, bounded and linear. In reality, transitions are more likely to be constant, amorphous and unpredictable. By insisting that transitions be preplanned and structured, organizations gain peace of mind but cause substantial stress for trans employees who may not know in advance what their transition will look like.

Rather than dictating a one size-fits-all transition process, more inclusive transition policies make transition-related resources—including information on transgender

health care benefits, best practices for transgender inclusion and options for supportive actions HR can take—available to any employee who wants access to them, no questions asked. Placing agency in the hands of transgender, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming and questioning people allows for a greater range of accommodations, reduces bureaucracy and increases access to resources and assistance for those who may feel uncomfortable with existing policies.

We found that transition policies did not prevent discrimination. They often weren’t used even when trans employees sought transition, because the employees lacked either the financial means or the desire to follow the narrow path stipulated by the policies. Additionally, they contributed to a perception that there was a “right” way to be trans—and that gender nonconformity had nothing to do with it.

It’s clear that it’s not sufficient for companies to simply be well-intentioned when it comes to creating and enforcing inclusive policies. To actually support employees of all gender identities and expressions, company leaders will have to take a different approach that balances flexibility, privacy and access.

Lily Zheng is a diversity, equity & inclusion consultant and executive coach.

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Jor-el Mendez Espina: Indigenous ingenuity

NEW BEAUTY DESTINATION

BEAUTY lovers and enthusiasts alike cannot stop talking about the newest beauty destination to hit the streets of Manila: LOOK Philippines—a one-of-a-kind shopping destination that brings your beloved brands from all over the globe in one, massive phygital playground at SM Aura Premier, truly a sight for all who crave a taste of travel, luxury, and a haven for self-care.

In the Philippines, multi-brand beauty concept stores are still quite unexplored, which is why LOOK Philippines (www.facebook.com/look.philippines) presents itself as the pioneer in the country, leading the standard in how beauty destinations should be: bold, edgy, and the promise to deliver extraordinary experiences with every visit, every single time.

LOOK Philippines General Manager Danilo S. Chong says, “Having all those considerations in mind, LOOK Philippines commissioned Malherbe Paris, one of the famous interior design and branding agencies in the world which has worked with the likes of Sephora, L’Occitane, and Hera, to come up with the store concept, design and brand identity.”

Consumers are bound to enjoy the sensorial experience the sprawling beauty powerhouse provides. There’s Instaspot, a digital space for brand activation, and the LOOK Lister promo area which is exclusive for members. Enjoy prestigious brands with shop-in-shop concepts such as NARS, Laura Mercier, Innisfree, Laneige, Clarins, Aveda, Makeup Forever, Shiseido and Benefit. COSRX is also launching their first-ever flagship store in the country through LOOK! Next, visit the Special Category Area line, which will feature the Clean Beauty (Apothecary), Mask World, Colour World for hair brands, and the store studio areas.

In addition, experience skin analyzers for accurate product recommendations, and ask beauty experts to collaborate with you and your skin’s needs.

LOOK has unveiled a world-class multi-brand beauty destination with more than 130 international, hard-to-find, and exclusive cosmetics, skin, fragrance, and nail brands such as The Ordinary, Klavuu, Glam Up, Dr. Ceuracle, Jumiso, Son & Park, Acwell, Papa Recipe & Day Mellow and VT Cosmetics. LOOK also houses exciting curated and luxurious brands from all over the world, such as Glossier, Huda Beauty, Fenty, Kylie, Kat Von D and many more. Finally, shoppers can expect to find prestige brands to the likes of Shu Uemura, YSL, Gucci, SK-II and L’Occitane.

Exciting promos are available until November 30 on Serioxyl Denser Serum, Benefit brow products and services, all Klavuu items, Innisfree Dermaline items, and select Elizabeth Arden items.

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NE of the most refreshing fashion talents I met in recent years is Jor-el Mendez Espina, laboring out of the “City of Love,” Iloilo City. A few years back, we got acquainted when the Ilongga supermodel Ria Bolivar invited me to observe a modeling workshop in their city.

In 2018, Dong Omaga-Diaz handpicked him to be part of Team Philippines that eventually won “Best Showcase of the Year” at Malaysia Fashion Week in Kuala Lumpur, a triumph I was fortunate enough to witness.

I’ve followed his career trajectory closely. From his signature patadyong TEEspina shirts, oversized bayong bags and Bomberong (bomber/barong) jackets, he has cultivated a market enticed by his distinctly Filipino flair.

He released, through his Instagram account (@jorel.espina), new designs such as hand-patched pullovers with embroidered jusi pockets, beaded shirts made of handwoven fabric from northern Luzon, Bomberong terno (from jusi embroidered in Lumban, Laguna), Bomberong jackets with pastel embroidery and Tagpi bomber jackets with uniquely combined, colorful Philippine weaves and patterns.

(Most of these products will be sold at the Katutubo Pop Up Market, The Curve Tower, Bonifacio Global City, from December 4 to 6.)

“In the beginning, I was in denial about Covid-19.

The first thing that came into my mind was the safety of my family and the people who work for me. Little did I know that many lives will change 360 degrees creatively and personally,” Espina said.

“I’m in the lifestyle business of making clothes. So instead of being sad, the lockdown somehow served as an eye-opener for me to recreate new things than the usual,” he added. “Another challenging part was that we had to minimize the capacity of workers in our workshop because of social distancing. We had to work with skeleton force for the pending orders, though some were canceled.”

Espina is creating the most captivating pieces to come out of quarantine, in clothing and accessories.

His Maskarong Tagalog series, made from local weaves, and unique “Maskarf” in black embroidered piña silk, the barong skirt, and the bayong Tagalog made from overstocked barong and binakol weave from Abra. A “Vestina” made of Yakan fabric. A new version

of an embroidered collar inspired by the kimona that can be layered to your shirt, blouson or tube top. He calls it “Collarong,” a collar na barong. All are still true to his ethnic-chic aesthetic.

His creative vision, however, took another exciting turn. “I thought the perfect time to launch my other love, which is creating things for the home, is now.

I’ve been planning for Balai Espina for years,” he said of the expanding Espina design philosophy.

“We pivoted in making home accents, but [the collection] is still related to my aesthetic. It is inspired by my signature Bomberong that remains popular to this day.”

Balai Espina brings exuberance to your homes

with colorful place mats (some made of ticog from Basey, Samar), food trays made of barong, throw pillows with folkloric prints, footstools upholstered in abel Iloco, patadyong plant tops, and handcrafted clay cups to replace your plastic cups.

“It is important for a designer like me, an Ilonggo, to know my roots for me to tell the story of our traditions through fashion. It’s all about seeing things around you and transforming them into something unique and relevant and that will adapt most especially this challenging time,” Espina explained.

“I must believe that this will be the start of an era of another golden age of sustainability, not just for fashion but also in lifestyle.” ■

A skin-care fountain actually exists #ALIVEwithBeauty, Shiseido “strives to bring out the beauty of every individual, regardless of gender, age, nationality or any other personal attribute.”

“To ensure Diversity and Inclusion in every aspect of our brand, we respect the rights and freedom deserved by all, and we act with empathy to create a world where individual beauty can shine,” said Shiseido in a statement.

FOR the holidays, Shiseido has released specialedition bottles of its best-selling Ultimune Power Infusing Concentrate and the iconic eyelash curler, which is said to be the best in the world and wellsuited to the Asian eye shape.

Aside from this, Shiseido also recently launched its Sustainable Beauty Actions. Sustainability is a big issue in the beauty business, what with all the bottles, tubes, jars, palettes and even sachets that go into the packaging of all the beauty products we consume. Shiseido’s Sustainable Beauty Actions is anchored on three goals: mottainai (recycle and reuse), harmony (with society and the environment) and empathy for all.

First, Shiseido put up an Ultimune fountain at the Shiseido flagship store in Ginza for refilling empty bottles. The brand has also created the world’s first biodegradable lip palette, Shiseido AquaGel. For the Ultimune fountain, customers can bring their empty Ultimune bottles, where they are cleaned in a sanitation-controlled environment before being refilled. With the aim of achieving 100 percent sustainable packaging by 2025, this is Shiseido’s first refill service in Japan.

In the Philippines, Shiseido plans to have the

SHISEIDO has put up an Ultimune fountain for refilling empty bottles.

Ultimune fountain in one store although there is no timetable for this yet.

By 2025, the 148-year-old Japanese beauty company aims to have sustainable packaging with the five “Rs.” Essentially, this means reduce (less packaging), reuse (refillable containers), recycle, replace (with biodegradable materials) and respect (for the environment).

Shiseido also wants its consumers to share their thoughts on sustainability and ideas related to it via the online community #ShiseidoSBAS. The Shiseido Sustainable Beauty Actions is based on three pillars. Mottainai is one of those Japanese words that is difficult to find a single-word English equivalent. It is often used to mean “what a waste!”

Generally, it means a sense of regret over waste, and is a call for gratitude and respect.

The second pillar is harmony, through which Shiseido promises to nurture the beauty of society by engaging in community-focused activities in harmony with people and nature. Under the banner of the Shiseido Blue Project, the brand vows to continue protecting and supporting beaches, oceans and the skin we live in.

The Shiseido Blue Project is an ocean protection initiative introduced by Shiseido in 2019. As part of the initiative, the brand engages in beach clean-ups, partnerships and other activities. More information can be found at brand.shiseido.co.jp/shiseidoblueproject.

The third pillar is empathy. Through the concept of

SHISEIDO AquaGel is the world’s first biodegradable lip palette.

CLOCKWISE: Leading GMA actress Marian Rivera in Bomberong Terno, hand-stitched shirt, barong skirt, Balai Espina throw pillows, bayong Tagalog, and Balai Espina plant pots coverings. @BALAI_ESPINA, @JOREL.ESPINA

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Hong Kong MX Pastries bring festive cheers

PLDT, Smart reaffirm support for MSMEs at GCNP-UNIDO Sustainability Summit 2020 recovery through affordable curated digital tools and wi-fi fit for enterprise— all anchored-on business-grade fiber.

Meanwhile, Biz LTE is Smart’s Fixed Wireless Broadband service and is perfect for small businesses—providing flexibility for use in stores and when on the go.

Empowering Home businesses nationwide

PLDT-Smart Chief Sustainability Officer Chaye Cabal-Revilla (top row, middle) with partners from the United Nations Global Compact Network Philippines

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T the invitation of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the UN Global Compact Network Philippines (GCNP), PLDT and Smart presented actionable solutions and policy recommendations at the GCNP - UNIDO Sustainability Summit 2020: Uniting Business to Support MSME Recovery and Resilience. The virtual event highlighted the resilience of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) who have been the most impacted sector in the Philippines in this time of pandemic.

The Summit followed PLDT and Smart’s participation in the organization’s exclusive Business Expert Group Meetings.

PLDT-Smart Chief Sustainability Officer Chaye Cabal-Revilla shared the Group’s inputs valuable towards understanding the challenges in, and possible solutions to, the recovery and resilience-building of MSMEs amid the COVID-19 crisis.

All Business Expert Group ambitions are anchored on the pillars of People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnerships, and aligned with the Philippine SocioEconomic and Peace Building Framework of the United Nations and the Philippine government.

Among the topics discussed by Cabal-

Revilla was the GCNP’s goal to encourage and stimulate investments that will enable industries to contribute to the sustainable development agenda. "While large enterprises continue to struggle to adopt sustainability principles in their operations, MSMEs are even more challenged," CabalRevilla says.

"Future advocacy efforts and multistakeholder discourses can look at practices such as the unified multi-purpose lending program, a ladderized approach to MSME lending, sector-focused supply chain finance, and the BSP-initiated Credit Surety Fund Program, sustainability reporting, among others," she explained.

Helping businesses recover through stimulus packages

THE PLDT Group’s support for MSMEs amid the pandemic include the release of stimulus packages to help the sector get their businesses back on track. The offers are founded on connectivity solutions that feature PLDT Enterprise’s newest fiber broadband service BEYOND FIBER and wireless broadband Smart Biz LTE. BEYOND FIBER helps inspire MSMEs and local entrepreneurs to rise above the challenge of going beyond with digital acceleration, while striving for financial

TO empower home-based entrepreneurs affected by the pandemic throughout the country, fixed broadband services provider PLDT Home recently launched the PLDT Home Biz Program.

PLDT Home Biz also partnered with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the One Town, One Product (OTOP) Philippines for the DTI and OTOP Virtual Trade Expo 2020, the country's first ever online national livelihood caravan which served as the perfect venue for MSMEs to promote their products and services.

Recently, the unit also introduced the new PLDT Home Biz KaAsenso Plans to drive home-based entrepreneurs into digital transformation. The KaAsenso Regular Plan 1888 provides speeds of up to 20Mbps, while the KaAsenso Regular Plan 2199 delivers speeds of up to 40Mbps. All plans come with free installation and activation.

Every KaAsenso plan comes with free KaAsenso Partner e-commerce solutions powered by experienced and wellknown e-commerce providers that can lend a hand to jump start home-based businesses to success with end-to-end digital business solutions such as online store builder and hosting by UnionBank GlobalLinker, secure and hassle-free online payments by PayMaya, and delivery options by Grab Madiskarteng Boss Club.

For more information on the PLDT Group’s various product offerings for MSMEs, visit www.pldtenterprise.com/ beyondfiber and www.pldthome.com/biz.

To know about the sustainability initiatives, visit www.pldt.com or send an email to ChiefSustainabilityOffice@ pldt.com.ph.

Hinatuan Mining oversees own version of a ‘Miyawaki’ forest

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IYAWAKI is a technique, pioneered by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, on how to grow plants and build forests 10 times faster. The concept is gaining consideration all over the world now that companies and institutions are being marked by society on how they address environment-conservation issues.

For mining companies, the big challenge has always been growing trees in lateritic soil that are deficient in nutrients. While the Miyawaki Method is building forests on barren lands which is called ‘afforestation’, miners rehabilitate and strive to build forests on mineralized soil, which is called ‘reforestation’.

According to HMC’s environment manager, Forrester Manuel A. Torres, the traditional approach of reforestation requires systematic spacing between crops and trees consistent with the ‘carrying capacity’ principle of ecology – where only a certain number of seedling can be accommodated per hectare of land.

Opposite to that, the Miyawaki approach is dependent on natural regeneration with the main goal to achieve a more natural forest-like vibe with grasses, shrubs, and multiple sub-species added to the main trees, all randomly thrown together without specific patterns based on the principle of native planting.

“The traditional methods used by miners and the Miyawaki principle may differ in some of its planting strategies but the results yield the same kind of natural forest stand,” explains Torres.

“I have not heard of Miyawaki before we started the rehabilitation at Eastern 1. We simply called our program ‘high-density planting strategy’, initially an experiment which turned out to have very similar goals to Miyawaki, which is to get the target area greener and leafier in half the expected time.

HMC started with picking out good provenance forest tree seedlings mixed them with fast-growing and indigenous forest tree seedlings that are naturally occurring in the area, and applied careful maintenance and tending practices to ensure quality growth in a short fragment of time.

As soon as the vegetation renders its

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OLIDAY festivities are best held with cheerful surprises. This season, Hong Kong MX, iconic makers of traditional gourmet pastries, invites you to partake in the wondrous act of gift-giving by sharing indulgences that help spread the kind of warmth that let you #TasteTheTogetherness all season long.

From Egg Rolls and Hearty Butter Pastries, to Mille-Feuilles and Cookies, Hong Kong MX unveils a unique selection of delectable treats that not only make for the best presents, but also a serve as a great way for sending out hope, love, and cheer to the ones you hold dear.

With each item’s essence kept wellpreserved, these gift boxes offer a burst of delectable honest-to-goodness flavor delicately handmade with artisanal standards. Baked to a perfect crisp, all treats are made using the purest of butter minus preservatives, shortening, margarine, or additives, making sure you share only the kind of elegance and exquisite perfection your loved ones deserve.

Carefully curated for those looking to sample everything and more, the Pastries Trio Deluxe gift box is packed with an intimate collection of signature goodies including Butter Cookies, Almond MilleFeuilles, and Hearty Butter Pastries. It’s the go-to present for those looking to spoil

their loved ones with a unique revelry of Yuletide flavors.

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Villar cites importance of proper sanitation, supports World Toilet Day 2020 celebration

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ITING the importance of proper sanitation in our lives and the economy, Sen. Cynthia A. Villar has been actively joining the celebration of World Toilet Day every November 19.

“We all know health hazards, among others, that poor sanitation and lack of toilet facilities bring to an individual, families, and entire communities, especially now that we are facing a health crisis due to COVID-19,” said Villar, chair of the Senate committee on Environment. She also mentioned about the added economic burden.

Quoting data from the World Health Organization, Villar said, “For every one dollar invested in basic sanitation in urban areas, an average of $2.5 is returned in saved medical costs and increased productivity. In rural areas, an average of $5 is returned for every $1 invested.

Loss of productivity and sanitation related

disease costs many countries up to 5% GDP.” In supporting proper sanitation, Villar has embarked on the construction of toilets and septic tanks especially in Metro Manila.

She is also at the forefront of toilet bowl distribution project in Baseco in Tondo, one of the poor communities in Metro Manila.

At present, she has given almost 500 toilets in Baseco, which number is still far from the needs of residents. Almost half of the 10,000 households in Baseco do not have toilet facilities.

Aside from the health dangers open defecation poses to residents, it further polluted Manila Bay which has undergone rehabilitation.

“This is happening not only in the provinces.

We have also many people in Metro Manila who are defecating in open spaces and bodies of water.

And the human wastes, the excrement- they go to our river, to our seas; they go to Manila Bay.” She emphasized the need to preserve Manila Bay and its biodiversity since many are depending on the bay for fish supply and livelihood.

She said the government needs our collective efforts to get rid of open defecation, the main goal of the United Nations General Assembly in declaring November 19 as World Toilet Day. The theme for this year’s celebration is “Toilet For Every Juan.”

Conti’s neighborhood shopper: a story of hope and goodness amidst the pandemic

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HMC’s Eastern 1 rehabilitated area - the traditional methods used by miners and the Miyawaki principle may differ in some of its planting strategies but the results yield the same kind of natural forest stand. microclimate, the natural characteristics of ‘endozoochory’ sets in wherein seed dispersal is aided by flora and fauna – ‘the birds and the bees, and flowers and trees’.

Just like the Miyawaki vision, HMC is seeing a display of lush vegetation to the mined-out area to around 4-6 years.

For NAC and all its subsidiaries – Cagdianao Mining in Dinagat Islands (CMC); Dinapigue Mining in Isabela (DMC); Rio Tuba Nickel Mining in Palawan (RTN) and Taganito Mining (TMC) in Surigao del Norte; and of course, HMC – environment-conservation is a critical part of business strategy, and, ‘building forests’ are ‘key performance indicators’ across the organization.

According to Rogel C. Cabauatan, AVP for Environment and Community Relations at NAC, the company has been a part of the Philippine government’s national greening program since its inception and has recorded some P5.3 Million trees planted across the organization from 2009 to 2020.

Engineer Francis J. Arañes, Jr., HMC Resident Mine Manager, cannot wait to open the site to visitors.

“We look forward to when this health crisis is over, because we have great visuals at the mine site that we want to share with the communities. As conscious stewards of the environment, it will be an honor to show-off the forests we helped build,” Arañes remarks.

ONTI’S, dubbed as the famous home of the Mango Bravo and of other equally sumptuous dishes remained to be a household name despite the lockdown. In fact, the love for Conti’s heightened as reflected on the outpour of orders it has been receiving.

With mobility being impaired due to COVID-19, only few people are allowed to be outside, paving the way for the emergence of “Pasabuy” services which enables one to purchase an item through a personal shopper called the “Pasabuyer”. The “Pasabuyer” physically buys the item/s and have it delivered right at the client’s doorstep.

To adapt to the new normal, Conti’s has partnered with them through its newest program, the Conti’s Neighborhood Shopper.

Conti’s Neighborhood Shopper makes adapting to the new normal easier as they render reliable service. In this difficult time, Conti’s stands out because of its high quality products and continues to stand out because it remains available and reachable through Conti’s Neighborhood Shopper. As official members of Conti’s, these Conti’s Neighborhood Shoppers get to learn how to work the Conti’s way. Training is provided to ensure safe and proper handling of Conti’s products, and for them to become efficient enablers of delightful celebrations at home. The program builds on the capacity of these neighborhood shoppers by providing them the opportunity to work, earn and turn their situation for the better. It is an incredible move that will definitely boost the morale of Conti’s Neighborhood Shoppers who are mostly displaced workers seeking ways to survive. The roll-out of this program is Conti’s own way of minimizing the terrible effects of COVID-19 to the livelihood of Filipinos.

“It is during these trying times when everyone is struggling to take it all in and make it through the day that we are highly called to be more determined in providing relief and nourishment by continuing to serve delicious

products which have always been a source of goodness even before the pandemic. As we mark our 23rd year in the industry amidst the pandemic, we realize even more that we not only want to thrive, but to also have a significant impact in our community. The unexpected yet timely birth of Conti’s Neighborhood Shopper is a great addition to the positive impact that we wish to impart. These Conti’s Neighborhood Shoppers have become instrumental to the continued success of Conti’s even in the darkest of times, thus, they deserve to be recognized and to be helped,” expressed by Mr. Joey R. Garcia, Conti’s President & CEO. The pandemic may have halted a number of things but not the celebration of occasions made more joyous by Conti’s delectable dishes. Through Conti’s Neighborhood Shoppers, the aim to reach more people to be able to take part in their celebrations and milestones becomes achievable even in the middle of the crisis. Here’s the link to get to know the Accredited Conti’s Neighborhood Shoppers and start bringing Conti’s to your home at your convenience: https:// www.facebook.com/contispastryshopandrestaurant/ posts/10159429176370400 Visit www.contis.ph to learn more about the latest delightful dishes from Conti’s.

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What our creative industry can learn from the Koreans and their K-dramas

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By Joy Lumawig-Buensalido

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ONG before Covid-19 hit our planet, I had wanted to write about the widespread phenomenon spanning K-pop culture and the K-dramas it has spawned, amazed as I was by how it did not spare even the most jaded among my female friends. Not just a few former classmates and colleagues were “afflicted” by it; I was intrigued to note that some respected women journalists—ranging from Gen X’ers to Boomers—had become certified fangirls of a slew of Korean heartthrobs whose names I can’t even pronounce.

To name a few avowed K-drama and K-pop journalists, there’s grief counsellor and columnist Cathy Sanchez Babao, lifestyle editor Millet Martinez Mananquil, and former lifestyle editor Thelma Sioson San Juan, whose particular interest lies in the K-pop group BTS which has been dominating the global music scene (this will be the topic of an entirely separate article).

Cathy Babao has been for sometime now urging her readers and friends to watch her favorite K-dramas. “Basically I got hooked because the storytelling is very engaging and unpredictable. KD’s don’t dumb down the viewers. In fact they educate and open new worlds. They provide a different lens through which we can see life. And they are such excellent stress busters!”

Millet Mananquil summed up her insights on the phenomenon: “It’s not all drama in K-drama.

There’s love and laughter, yes, but there’s also so much Asian history and culture—fragments of our own identity. I realized Filipinos have too long been enslaved by a colonial mentality that made us embrace Hollywood, we’ve forgotten we have our own Asian soul.”

My curiosity was heightened by my first trip to Seoul in April 2019.

I was visibly impressed not only by how modern the buildings and how fashionable the people were, but also by how Seoul reminded me of cosmopolitan capitals like Hong Kong and Tokyo. Before then, I had not visualized South Koreans as being ultra sophisticated in their technology, in their lifestyles, and in the way they conducted their businesses. Koreans come to the Philippines to learn English, don’t they? So why is their country so much more advanced than ours?

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which tackles the topic of mental health and how it can be better understood, as an example. (I myself watched this series and admired how they made the issue of mental health quite relatable, especially since their focus was on men’s mental health.)

2. K-drama series give fresh and refreshing takes on common themes, naming “Hospital Playlist” as his personal favorite. These are stories of five doctors and their daily lives depicted in a new and refreshing way.

Cathy Babao, Grief Counsellor and Columnist

attention? Obviously, they did it through drama.

Korean dramas are believed to have gained popularity around the time that Korean pop culture or the Korean “wave” was spreading in the 1990's. It was at the onset of that new decade when Korean television experienced vital milestones as technology developed and gave rise to new opportunities.

Coincidentally, Korean entertainment and pop culture also started spreading across Asia and other parts of the world, giving birth to the term “Hallyu” or “the Korean Wave.”

Interestingly, the term “Hallyu” was used in an article by Beijing Youth Daily, which acknowledged “that Korean pop music had ignited the Korean pop culture in China.”

The Korean wave next landed in Japan when the TV drama series Winter Sonata, which was aired on NHK in 2003, became an instant “mega hit.”

Today, “Hallyu” has expanded to include Korean traditions and culture, food, literature and language, creating more and more enthusiasts. And we Filipinos have likewise been struck! Why else would the country’s largest telco company hire the lead actor and actress from the wildly popular Netflix Korean series Crash Landing on You to be their foreign endorsers? And why is there a sudden proliferation of Korean restaurants, cosmetic shops, and even Korean general merchandise stores in many parts of the metropolis?

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Center and the University of the Philippines. Thelma was one of the panelists together with Dr. Aldrin Lee, the OIC and Director of the UP Korea Research Center; Eric Paolo Capistrano, Associate Professor in UP Diliman; and a longtime fan and consumer of Korean culture; and another UP professor—Professor Amor Aljibe—who teaches an elective course in UP Diliman entitled, “K-Drama Analysis.”

Professor Aljibe shared that from an initial 15 students who had enrolled for the course, her students had ballooned to 300, requiring the creation of three sections. Her classes further expanded when a multitude of fans requested to “audit” (meaning: join the classes without credit). These were composed of housewives, moms, other students, and even other professors who were certified K-drama followers.

This was when she realized, Professor Aljibe said, that it was about time they made K-drama the subject of further research. The course she teaches aims to find out why Kdrama series are successful. At the time of the webinar, she mentioned that her students were already busy dissecting 52 episodes.

Reasons for the success of K-dramas

FOR his part, Professor Eric Capistrano proudly confessed that he has been a fan of Korean dramas since 2010. During the past 10 years, he observed that K-dramas had evolved into a riveting form of entertainment and he explains why in the following statements: 1. K-dramas feature new and sometimes disruptive content, citing the series “It's OK to not be OK,” vide the best and most rewarding way to pay for all Filipinos, especially during this holiday season,” said Shailesh Baidwan, President of PayMaya.

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3. Koreans allot a sizeable budget to their drama series and they’re also very forward-looking. For this, his example was The King: Eternal Monarch.

4.Another major factor is that they readily transition from one platform and genre to another.

Again, he mentioned The King: Eternal Monarch, which moved from television to Netflix, and Backstreet Rookie, a webtoon that became a live action drama and was made available in Netflix and China’s livestreaming web site. Different platforms, bigger audiences.

5. It’s “a very robust ecosystem” that supports and aggressively promotes K-dramas similar to what they currently do with Korean music talents.

6. Regardless of the wide range of subjects, K-dramas appeal to various audiences. This is brought about by the continuous stream of content that comes from both new talents and seasoned Korean actors. “We see more and more K-pop idols becoming actors and actresses.

Plus they have very loyal fan bases that become guaranteed viewers in shows with K-Pop stars.”

7. Lastly, they are unstoppable, tirelessly “churning out new dramas.” Capistrano said that KBS, one of Korea’s biggest networks, has YouTube channels dedicated to specific content, effectively addressing the needs of all audiences.

How then can the Philippines replicate the success of Korea’s Kdramas?

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overnight. It’s interesting how writing triumphed in the K-dramas. Audiences have been exposed to a high level of content. Their writers are also stars in their own right. They have their own followers.”

Thelma asserts that local media would be wise not to ignore this phenomenon. “This pandemic only formalized an audience that was already there. This is clearly a marriage of technology and content and it must be because Korea has tapped technology for human drama. It’s what I would call a digital diet.”

She goes on to say that the Korea phenomenon is an invasion in the same way that Hollywood was an invasion. “Culture is not an exclusive entity; it’s osmosis. To go global is not a choice; we just have to make sure we bring our national identity to the table.”

And that is perhaps what we in the creative industry must think about and work for through a long and hard process. We have a bottomless reserve of creative talents in the Philippines and while many of them are being recognized by global award-winning bodies, our creative industry would do extremely better if the government were to lend its wholehearted support, especially during this time of increased consumption of entertainment from our regional neighbors.

Asia is on the global radar now and the Philippines must harness what we already have in terms of our talented scriptwriters, filmmakers, actors, actresses, and the entire media, film, broadcast and communications industries.

“This Korean phenomenon will not end anytime soon,” Eric Capistrano affirms. “For every beautiful achievement of Korea, there’s a corresponding cost to it and this is what our own government should realize and acknowledge.”

PR Matters is a roundtable column by members of the local chapter of the United Kingdom-based International Public Relations Association (Ipra), the world’s premiere association for senior communications professionals around the world. Joy Lumawig-Buensalido is the President and CEO of Buensalido & Associates Public Relations.

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Sports P.O.C. FRESHENS UP BusinessMirror

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By Josef Ramos

HERE’S something about this newlyelected set of Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) officials that breathes fresh air to the country’s sports landscape—age.

Re-elected president Rep. Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino (cycling) is 56 years old. His running mates—first vice president Al Panlilio (basketball) is 57 and second vice president Richard Gomez (fencing and modern pentathlon) is 54.

Put in executive board members David Carter (judo) and Pearl Managuelod (muay) who are 49 and 42 years old, respectively.

The other one on Tolentino’s ticket as board member, renowned sports medicine expert Dr. Raul Canlas (surfing) has just turned 60. Chito Loyzaga (baseball) who won as auditor, is 62 but no one’s doubting his wit and fitness as a tough basketball player in his prime.

That leaves Cynthia Carrion Norton (gymnastics), the new treasurer, the oldest at 70 on Tolentino’s list of winning candidates. But you should see her dance the zumba.

“I think I can take some rest with these new set of officers...just kidding,” said Tolentino, who beat archery’s Clint Aranas, 30-22, in last Friday’s regular term elections at the East Ocean Palace Restaurant in Pasay City.

For Gomez, also the mayor of Ormoc City, he

REP. ABRAHAM “BAMBOL” TOLENTINO (fifth from left) is proclaimed president of the Philippine Olympic Committee by Election Committee Chairman Atty. Teodoro Kalaw IV (left) and Francisco Elizalde (right). Also proclaimed are (from left) David Carter and Charlie Ho as directors, Al Panlilio as first vice president, Cynthia Carrion as treasurer, Richard Gomez as second vice president and Pearl Managuelod as director. Not in photo are chairman Steve Hontiveros, auditor Chito Loyaga and director Dr. Raul Canlas. ROY DOMINGO sees experience as a plus factor for governance.

“I think with age comes wisdom and wisdom is very important in decision making,” Gomez said.

“It’s a combination of energy and wisdom at 50s— and dedication to sports.”

“Being the youngest, I’ll bring new ideas, more energy and a fresh set of eyes that will hopefully lead to more progressive and proactive policies and programs that are athlete-centered,” Managuelod said. “But of course, I yield to their guidance and wisdom in navigating a more complex world of sports.”

Panlilio said the POC would now operate as a team with the athletes as priority,

“We are here to serve our athletes. I have seen the plight of our athletes and we want to make sure that we will support them with proper training,” Panlilio said. “We will hopefully work together, govern and be accountable to our athletes. We are here to serve and not to be served.”

Carrion Norton stressed age won’t matter.

“Last August 21, I completed 70, but I feel 40.

Age is only a number,” she said.

Tolentino’s team won all but two positions with Steve Hontiveros retaining his post as chairman and Charlie Ho getting a seat as board member.

Hontiveros is the most veteran in the group—

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AN image of Diego Armando Maradona is projected on a giant screen before the Serie A match between Sassuolo and Inter Milan at the Mapei Stadium in Reggio Emilia, Italy, on Saturday. AP “Football will never forget Diego.”

City and Burnley players warmed up to the song “Live is Life” by Austrian band Opus. That’s the tune Maradona warmed up to before one of Napoli’s UEFA matches in 1989. The players went through their usual routine as the Etihad Stadium loudspeakers played the song.

Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti struggled to hold his emotions together.

He made the sign of the cross and kissed

Saso winds up joint sixth, falls short of Y100M mark

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MARADONA GETS TRIBUTES ACROSS GLOBE CROSS the globe, teams paid tribute to Diego Maradona on Saturday with moments of silence before European soccer games and a touching gesture from New Zealand’s rugby team.

The death of the Argentine great was still being felt three days after he had a heart attack at the age of 60 outside Buenos Aires, where he had been recovering from a brain operation.

Manchester City and Burnley players and coaches stood and applauded as a video showed Maradona’s famous solo run and goal for Argentina against England in the quarterfinals of the 1986 World Cup. The “Hand of God” goal was earlier in the game.

“This week, we lost a true footballing great.

Diego Maradona was everything football should be: expressive, exciting, attacking and free,” City manager Pep Guardiola said in the team’s matchday program.

“A unique, once-in-a-generation player who brought joy to so many people,” he added.

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UKA SASO hobbled with a three-over 75 to wind up joint sixth place in the Japan Ladies Professional Golf Association (JLPGA) Tour Championship Ricoh Cup ruled by Erika Hara at the Miyazaki Country Club in Miyazaki Prefecture on Sunday.

Saso faded with three straight bogeys from No. 5 on errant shots and a poor short game and despite fighting back with birdies on Nos. 8 and 10, the Filipino-Japanese overshot the par-five 11th on her second shot, needing to use her left hand to extricate herself out of a bad lie from under a tree.

She landed in the bunker and blasted way off target for another bogey that dashed her hopes for at least a third place finish that would make her the first player to hit Y100 million in earnings in the Japan Tour season.

Saso’s four-under 284 total dropped her to a share of sixth with three others, six strokes behind the Hara, who bucked a bogey on the par-5 second with at three clutch pars from long range.

But in a latest JLPGA advisory, the 2020 season will be extended to early next year with more events to make up for the cancellation of some tournaments this year due to the global health crisis, keeping the International. Container Terminal Services Inc.-backed Saso’s drive for the Player of the Year honors.

The Japan Women’s Open champion then went on to birdie Nos. 6, 10 and 13 to pull away from a rallying Ayaka Furue and clinch her second major despite two bogeys in the last five holes for a 72 and a 278. The 21-year-old Hara banked the top purse of Y30 million but settled for No. 3 in the Player of the Year derby which Furue topped on a strong closing 68 to snatch runner-up honors in the Y120 million closing event of the JLPGA worth 300 points at 280.

Furue, who started the final round at joint 10th after a woeful 75 Saturday, finished with 1371.78 points, frustrating Saso, who settled for a measly 98 points for 1146.85 points in their fierce battle for the Player of the Year diadem. Hara wound up with 1049.32 points for third. Saso banked Y4.638 million in the tournament to hike her total earnings to Y93,891.170.

Still, it was a remarkable campaign for the 19-year-old rookie, who made quite an impression by scoring back-to-back victories at NEC Karuizawa and Nitori Ladies last August before her game went on a downswing with only one top 10 finish to show in her next six tournaments.

his finger after a tribute before their match against Leeds. Ancelotti played against Maradona during their time in Serie A and later went on to manage Napoli.

Maradona led Napoli to its only two Serie A titles in 1987 and 1990 and is considered an icon in the southern city.

In Valencia, Spain, Atlético Madrid coach Diego Simeone was moved by the pre-match homage to Maradona, his former Argentina teammate.

even in the POC for such matter—having been around since the 1970s as bowling chief and now president of handball. He is now 76.

“They are all good leaders in their own right. They are adjusting to Philippine sports,” Hontiveros said. “If they need my help, I am here anytime for the country. I don’t have any agenda here ever since.”

International Olympic Committee Representative to the Philippines Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski, who is a member of of the POC board, is 46.

The new set of officers’ term officially starts on January 1.

“I believed it was important to say one final goodbye by applauding him,” Simeone said.

Tributes were ongoing across Serie A this weekend. The warmup song was being broadcast in Italian stadiums.

All Serie A players were taking the field wearing a black armband, and a minute’s silence was being observed before each kickoff, with players lined up around the center circle.

The Italian league is also holding a minute’s silence, projecting an image of Maradona on stadium screens, and highlighting the message “Ciao Diego” on the stands—which, like most stadiums in Europe, are empty because of coronavirus restrictions.

At the 10th minute of each Italian match, an image of Maradona was being projected again, in honor of his jersey number.

Napoli hosts Roma on Sunday. Thousands of Napoli supporters made a pilgrimage to San Paolo Stadium on Thursday to light a candle, leave a scarf or a shirt and shed some tears in memory of their hero.

Across the Bundesliga, teams stood for a moment’s silence and images of Maradona were shown on stadium screens, including one of the Argentine raising the World Cup trophy in 1986 when they beat West Germany in the final.

At Union Berlin’s home game, stadium announcer Christian Arbeit said in Spanish: “Hasta siempre compañero.”

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OS ANGELES—Mike Tyson showed glimpses of his destructive prime Saturday night during the 54-year-old boxing icon’s return to the ring for a lively exhibition bout with 51-year-old Roy Jones Jr. Both fighters had impressive moments during a fight that was unofficially ruled a draw by the World Boxing Council judges at ringside. Tyson and Jones fought eight twominute rounds, and both emerged smiling and apparently healthy from a highly unusual event at Staples Center.

“This is better than fighting for championships,” Tyson said of the heavyweight exhibition, which raised money for various charities. “We’re humanitarians now. We can do something good for the world. We’ve got to do this again.”

The former heavyweight champion of the world’s return to the ring after a 15-year absence attracted international attention, and Iron Mike did his best to show the form that made him a legend to a generation of boxing fans. Tyson tagged Jones with body shots and a handful of head punches during a bout that was required to be a fairly safe glorious sparring session by the California State Athletic Commission.

“The body shots definitely took a toll,” said Jones, the former four-division world champion widely considered the most skilled boxer of his generation. “It’s something to take the punches that Mike throws. I’m cool with a draw. Maybe we can do it again.”

Jones walked to the ring with gloves and trunks honoring Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, while Tyson wore his signature all-black trunks. After the traditional pre-fight pomp and an introduction by Michael Buffer, the 50-something champions both came out

throwing punches that evoked echoes of their glorious primes.

They also tied up frequently on the inside, and their occasionally labored breathing could be heard on the microphones in the empty arena. Hip hop star Snoop Dogg’s witty television commentary was among the loudest noises inside Staples, and he had a handful of zingers: “This is like two of my uncles fighting at the barbecue!”

Tyson and Jones were the headliners in the most improbable pay-perview boxing event in years, engineered by social networking app Triller and featuring fights interspersed with hip hop performances in an empty arena.

The event was derided as an anti-sporting spectacle by some critics, yet both Tyson and Jones appeared to handle themselves capably and safely. Fans were clearly enamored, with the show getting enormous traction on social media.

“I hit you with some good shots, and you took it,” Tyson said. “I respect that.”

In the co-main event, YouTube star Jake Paul knocked out former NBA player Nate Robinson, stopped in the second round of Robinson’s pro boxing debut. Paul, in his second pro fight, recorded three knockdowns against Robinson, the three-time NBA Slam Dunk contest champion, before an overhand right put Robinson flat on his face and apparently unconscious.

Tyson retired from boxing in 2005, saying he longer had “the fighting guts or the heart” after he quit in a dismal loss to journeyman Peter McBride. Finally free of his

sport’s relentless pressure, Tyson gradually straightened out his life, kicking a selfdescribed drug addiction and eventually succeeding in acting, stage performance, charity work and even marijuana cultivation while settling into comfortable family life in Las Vegas with his third wife and their children. AP

EFORE the National Basketball Association (NBA) Bubble, when the latter word came to mind, I thought of that made-for-television film, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, where this boy (inspired by a true story), has to live inside a bubble because of his lack of an effective immune system. By the end of the film, the boy, now a young man, has built up enough immunities to allow him to go out in the world. And he does.

Cut to today, 44 years after that film (and 49 years after the incident that inspired the movie), professional sports leagues have adopted life in a bubble for a tournament with conditions and protocols in place to keep them safe. However, when they go out, the possibility of infection to the Covid-19 virus remains.

For the opening conference of the Philippine Basketball Association’s 45th season, all team officials, players and auxiliaries as well as league officials, were billeted at the Quest Plus Conference Center in the Mimosa Plus estate inside the sprawling former American airbase.

I spoke to Justin Chua of Phoenix Super LPG and Nico Salva of the Meralco Bolts about the experience and this is what both had to say.

“Initially, I was skeptical of the bubble,” Chua admitted. “I wondered how it would be for the duration we were there. They tell you what to expect but only when you experience it for yourself do you understand.”

“I was there for almost two months,” chimed in Salva who was a teammate of Chua’s from 200812 at the Ateneo de Manila University where they won five straight University Athletic Association of the Philippines championships. “I was excited to be finally playing basketball when I heard about the bubble. While I was thrilled by this new experience, I also knew it would be a mental battle knowing we will be confined in a small space and won’t have the freedom to go anywhere we wanted.”

One of the biggest adjustments everyone had to make was going from the unrestricted luxury of moving around home to having limitations on

movement. ‘I think it is just right given the number of people there and Covid-19 still around,” said Chua.

“I missed my loved ones at home and I always made sure to talk to them on a regular basis,” Salva bared. “’Ayuda days’ in the bubble where once a week where we could get stuff from the outside delivered. It felt like opening Christmas gifts when we opened groceries on ayuda day.”

After the initially Covid-19 testing, all entrees to the bubble were quarantined.

Said Chua, “We could move around only in certain areas like the hallway, the lobby, the swimming pool where every team had its own schedule, and the golf course where one had to reserve a slot two days in advance and play only on Mondays.”

“It was hard to develop a routine because our schedules changed every day,” Salva said. “We had different practice and gym times because this was rotated for all teams. I felt claustrophobic and anxious a lot of times but it got better when the playoffs started as we had more time in the pool and could move around more freely.”

The one constant were the meal times, endless card games and wine time.

“I am impressed with what the PBA and our team did because we were there just to play basketball,” Chua added. “We played basketball, had practice, hit the gym or the pool, had our team meetings, we ate three times a day, and of course, had our bonding sessions.”

Summed up Chua, “Now that I am home, it feels different. Now there needs to be a whole new routine. I once more have to think and fend for myself such as my meals and what to do. Looking back at that almost two months in the bubble, I was surreal, but I totally appreciate everything that the PBA and the team did for us. It is an unforgettable experience.”

“It feels good to be home,” Salva agreed. “I missed home a lot and am happy to be with my family. Though I wish we made it to the finals and had a shot at winning the championship.”

TSUKII WINS GOLD IN SERBIA

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ILIPINO-JAPANESE karateka Junna Tsukii won a kumite gold medal in the Serbia Invitational Championships in the central town of Arandevolac on Sunday afternoon to press on her bid to qualify for next year’s Tokyo Olympics.

Although the tournament was a simulation of the Olympic qualifier scheduled in June next year in Paris, the 29-year-old Tsukii competed against world-class karatekas who are also hoping to bag tickets to Tokyo.

The 2019 Southeast Asian Games gold medalist competed in the 55-kg category, not in her usual 50-kg class, but still fought with a flourish by beating 35-year-old Brazilian 35-yearold Brazilian Valeria Kumikazi, the world No. 6, in the World Karate Federation tournament.

“It’s an invitational tournament, but all the top players competed. There is one last remaining round and the top three finishers per category will go straight to the Olympics,” said Richard Lim, president of the Karate Pilipinas Sports Federation Inc. (KPSFI), adding the participants were mostly from the host country, Switzerland, Slovakia, Croatia and Brazil.

Lim said Tsukii will remain in Serbia for her training.

“Our chances are really getting bigger and the way our karatekas are performing, they’re really putting their hearts and souls into their goal,” Lim said.

Lim said Jamie Lim, Joane Orbon, Sharief Afif, Ivan Agustin and Awyn Batican will vie in the Paris qualifiers. Annie Abad

Gilas braces for Thai fightback

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MIKE TYSON throws a punch during the fifth round against Roy Jones Jr. AP

JUNNA TSUKII impresses as she focuses on qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics.

HE all-amateur Gilas Pilipinas squad expects Thailand to come out stronger when they clash anew on Monday in the second window of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asian Qualifiers 2021 at the Khalifa Sports City bubble in Manama, Bahrain.

“I am sure they will adjust after our game last Friday. We should be ready for that,” Gilas Head Coach Jong Uichico told BusinessMirror.

The Philippines scored a lopsided 93-61 win on Friday over an all-professional team that bore the core of Thailand Basketball League champion Hitech Bangkok City. The Thais, however, weren’t exactly as tough as advertised as they yieled another one-sided match to the Indonesians, 76-90, on Saturday.

Ateneo’s Dwight Ramos was 4-of-4 from the line and 7-of-7 from the field including two three-pointers to lead Gilas with points, while big man Justin Baltazar of De La Salle and Juan Gomez de Liaño finished with 12 points apiece.

With Ramos’s stong performance, he expects the Thais to gang up at him but Uichico has prepared a new game plan for Monday’s game.

“He [Ramos] played really well. I am sure they will devise some type of defense to counter our strengths,” Uichico said.

Uichico announced later on Sunday that National Collegiate Athletic Association Most Valuable Player Calvin Oftana and Jaydee Tungcab will replace Mike Nieto and Will Navarro for the game set at 9 p.m.

Also on the roster are Kobe Paras, Matt Nieto, Isaac Go, Justine Baltazar, Dave Ildefonso, Juan Gomez de Liaño, Javi Gomez de Liaño, Ramos, Kenmark Carino and Rey Suerte.

Gilas is unbeaten in two games in Group A, including its 100-70 win over Indonesia in the first window last February 23 in Jakarta. Josef Ramos